New Online Exhibition Captures Community Experiences Of Lockdown 22 January 2021, 05:12 AM
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2020 Vision: Lockdown Experiences from the Cayman Islands is a new online exhibition by the National Gallery of the Cayman Islands, developed in collaboration with the Cayman Islands Government’s Covid-19 Commemorative Project. It seeks to explore our community’s diverse experiences of lockdown – reflecting how we, individually and collectively, are dealing with this unique moment in our history.
Developed from a country-wide ‘Open Call’ for photographs in late 2020, 42 photographers feature in the exhibition and their images capture a broad view of life in Cayman both during lockdown and as restrictions had begun to ease. Three major themes emerged through the camera’s lens: Home/Family Life, Wellness/Outdoor Time, and Community. Home/Family Life captures the domestic environment: worki