In March 2020, a half year after M started school, the coronavirus hit the world and childcare, education became exclusively parental responsibility.
Stay-at-home, and working-from-home policies became central solutions of most governments in order to flatten the curve and fight the virus. Parents world-wide had to homeschool their children, while working from the same living space “experiencing severe housing deprivation and overcrowding.”
Due to the lack of formal childcare, mothers disproportionately took on unpaid caregiving and educational responsibilities—had to withdraw from the public workforce—while children became isolated in their homes.
These images were made during this time.
7 May 2020
22 December 2020
29 March 2020 (2 weeks after the lockdown begins in the Netherlands)
18 February 2021 (one year after lockdown begins)
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4 November 2020
4 November 2020
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