Signs of the times

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London, ON
May 2021
This photo originally shared on Instagram

The signs we encounter as we move through our streets can tell vivid stories about the lives we lead. This is especially true during the pandemic.

From social distancing stickers on floors to hastily printed posters on doors and windows, today’s visual landscape is radically different than it was just before everything changed.

So I’ve been taking not-so-random photos along the way. Not because a bunch of laser-printed warnings on a coffee shop’s front door represent great photography. They don’t. But I can’t not try to remember what all this looks like.

And years from now, memories of visuals like this will explain, to us and to others, what it felt like to live through this.

Photography isn’t always about eye-opening artistry. Sometimes it’s about telling the story of how we lived.

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