Ehsan Noortaqani (Isfahan Art University)
Monochrome days and other stories.
Award of Excellence
The COVID Experience
We are a family.my mother, my sisters, saleheh 12, hananeh 8 and I .in February 2020 coronavirus got epidemic in Iran .it was about 5 years ago that we used to stay at home because of my father’s death. Because of the virus everything is being closed and we are locked at our home alone with no physical connection with others and all the limitation in the society. According to the W.H.O researches, the virus has less danger for the kids, but we face directly with the virus since our mom is working in the local health center as the medical technician. In this photo series I tried to show how my sisters deal with this crisis and explore their world as kids when no one cares about kids in such situation.
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Schools have been closed for past few days. Today the government announced that they will be kept closed for an unknown period of time.
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Spring is coming and our apricot tree in the yard is blooming. My sisters used to water it each year by the first blossoms but now they just can watch it.
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Mom should be at work at 7 am , so she slept earlier, but the girls are still awake till late night and watch prison break series.
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Today is Hana’s birthday. She has been planning for it from months ago. It was going to be a special day. Now She ready for it, but there are no guests, no party , no cake, no music, and nothing special.
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We hear that our aunt is diagnosed with Coronavirus and hospitalized.my mom and saleheh are trying to call her but she doesn’t answer .
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Saleheh and hananeh are playing doctor games. They wear special healthy and safe costumes for their job. Nurse hananeh is doing treatment for patient teddy .
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I hear one of our neighbors is suspicious to Covid 19. He doesn’t feel well. There is an ambulance here at their door to take him to the hospital. Saleheh is staring at ambulance .
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Hananeh lockdown herself .
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It’s the 45th day of lockdown. Hananeh is tired of staying at home.
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We hear the bad news today. Our neighbor is gone.
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As the weather get hotter and the epidemic diminishes, the kids are fed up and want to end up the quarantine. after 60 days the kids are playing outside without any worry.
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Sun is going down. We have to go back home . hananeh is running and enjoying her last moments out of locking.