I feel a little guilty.
It's not quite ruin porn but I do feel I'm benefiting from the ongoing restrictions on everyday life in London. I feel the way to turn that into something more altruistic is to publish a second Living Lockdown book to raise money for Ealing Foodbank in what's becoming a version of a series of unfortunate events.
Living Lockdown August 2020 - January 2021 Book from Sean McDonnell on Vimeo.
I've picked up the story from the end of my first Living Lockdown book last July and...well I'll let the author speak for himself
So on I run around Ealing, through the slow release of the first lockdown into the tiers of autumn.
My routes are familiar but the streets are changing.
Help yourself items on garden walls are rarer now.
Chairs have been taken inside and the chalk games washed away in the rain.
Gloves are out of fashion. Masks are all the rage.
Social distancing is second nature as pavement circles peel and fade.
Shop windows play with time. Advent calendars on sale before Halloween and late-night Christmas openings that never happened.But change is coming.
I've followed a similar selection and editing process to last time, as you can see in my collection of albums on Flickr. I think the sense of fatigue that we speak about comes through with moments of despair and humour. Very wartime.
