Lockdown Photo – Stories: Visualising the Everydayness of ‘New Normal’
Photographer – Banshanlang Marwein
Documenting photo stories isn’t easy as it seems because it takes a whole lot of your sharp attention of moments to capture the daily mundane and picture them as it is. Photos can sometimes speak volumes beyond what the eyes can fathom, should you leave that memory lying there without capturing them it might be a missing moment. They heal, touch, provoke yet nothing can easily make us realised how the Pandemic has impacted us at a personal and professional level, pictures and videos anyhow can make us feel the pinch of daily mundanes. Not all pictures necessarily represent the dark side of the story, it is also essentially the lighter side of what everydayness means to one and all. Three months on, people have been trying hard to ‘live with the virus’ and the ‘New Normal’, life is not going to be back again in any time soon as we are grappling with the tensed economic downturn and the loss of jobs and livelihood.
During the pandemic, aside from cherishing old habits and introspecting ourselves, we can find solace in photographing the moments we come across while also killing time amid monotony not to mention the time spent on eating and web surfing among other activities. These pictures are not in good quality but at best they try to signify some details of the everydayness of the ‘New Normal.
(Banshanlang Marwein is a doctoral candidate at Centre for International Politics, Organization and Disarmament, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)
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