CAMERA - Lockdown Stories 2020 - Karen

Karen recalls her horrific and despairing time working at Pelham Care Home in Folkestone where they lost 10 residents over Lockdown 2020.

"We had no testing kits or anything for a long while. Then we had a special team came in, did some testing, and we found out that 90 percent of our residents were, in fact probably 95 percent of our residents were positive and over half of the staff, so that was quite horrific and from there everything just fell apart.

We lost over half our residents with four or five staff working every day, 24 hours, that's just four or five staff. We were doing the cooking, the domestic work, the caring, everything, absolutely everything." - Karen.

These audio recordings are an ongoing documentation of the residents and workers I photographed. In 2022 I asked them to reflect back on the 2020 lockdown and tell me their story.
Thank you to Develop Your Creative Practice (DYCP) and The Arts Council England for supporting this project.

Equipment:
Tascam Portacapture
Rode NTG4 Microphone
PG2 pistol grip and shock mount

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