[The Guardian] Isolation and contemplation: Nadav Kander's visual response to coronavirus

Isolation and contemplation: Nadav Kander's visual response to coronavirus

In the first part of our series commissioned in conjunction with the Prix Pictet, a global award in photography and sustainability, photographers who have won or been shortlisted for the award over the last decade have been asked to make a personal response to the Covid-19 crisis.

The ability to move us beyond cliche is a characteristic photographers shortlisted for the Prix Pictet share, and it is important as we grapple with the reality of the world as we emerge from the Covid-19 crisis.

The global lockdown has birthed new cliches; wildlife cautiously exploring the unpeopled streets, or iconic monuments devoid of tourists, ignored save the occasional solitary individual escaping their confinement.

This commission asked photographers to move beyond the obvious, and present a series of images that respond to the new issues confronting us, and begin to plot a route to a new future and new ways of thinking about the world.

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