2020 will go down in history as the year of the Covid Pandemic. The World Health Organisation declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern in January. By March, they were calling it a Pandemic, and it was then that the Lockdown began. Some of these images reflect small parts of that huge reality. I remember the deserted streets, the pictures of rainbows, and the weird feeling of being in a disaster movie. Mostly however, this is a more personal Review of 2020. I take photographs to make sure that I notice as much as I can of the amazing, ordinary wonders of our world. It’s those which keep us alive.
BLOGGING allowed me to think about and write about an often difficult year.
Some days were just perfect. Jan 2020, on the Law
Frozen leaves in Dudhope Park, Jan 20th, 2020
Lightship, Dundee docks, Jan 5th 2020
McManus Galleries on the right, and D.C. Thomson’s in the centre, Feb 10th 2020
Coldside Library, February 25th 2020
Dundee city centre, through a rainy bus window, March 2020
Isobel’s mum, Marion, March 13th , 2020
Near the top of the Law, March 15th, 2020
Nergal, my constant companion, April 5th, 2020
Dundee, April 13th, 2020
Isobel at the ‘Swannie Ponds’, April 15th, 2020
Nergal in a tree, May 20th 2020
Lockdown beside the Howff, Dundee, May 24th 2020
Isobel Duke, June 2020
Looking over the River Tay, July 2020
In Community Garden at Ninewells Hospital, July 5th, 2020
In Community Garden at Ninewells Hospital, July 5th, 2020
Through the blue door, at Edzell, July 26th 2020
Craigtoun Park, Fife, Aug 1st 2020
Pictish stone, Aberlemno, Aug 1st 2020
September 2020: Demonstration in support of Debora Kayembe
In October 2020, I was shortlisted for the Chaffinch Press literary prize, for my book: ‘Hunted like a Fox‘
HARVEY DUKE 