Polly Morgan, 5km From Home (DOCO 2022)

These photos were taken in the City of Stonnington (where I live), in Melbourne's Inner East during 2020 and the first half of 2021, when Melbourne had multiple lockdowns due to the Coronavirus pandemic. During some of the lockdowns, there was a curfew in place and travel was restricted, and people weren't allowed to go more than 5km away from their home unless it was for essential work or medical/caring reasons. This meant the normally busy streets in this densely populated inner urban area were mostly empty, while people went through the long grind of extended lockdown largely behind closed doors.

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