The Pandemic Blues is a photographic project developed during the COVID-19 pandemic, documenting the visual traces left behind in public space during periods of lockdown and restricted movement.
Disposable blue face masks, once a functional necessity, became a recurring and anonymous presence in streets, gutters, and pavements. Discarded and displaced, they formed a visual language that was both universal and locationless — images that could have been made on almost any street, in any city.
As human presence retreated from public life, these fragments remained. The absence of people within the frame reflects the enforced separation of lockdown, while the repeated presence of blue masks became a quiet marker of a shared global experience.
The project uses colour, repetition, and absence to document a period defined by uncertainty, isolation, and collective restraint — a time experienced together, while physically apart.