2020 Highlights
80 images Created 17 Dec 2020
The man in the local park was incensed: "Why are you taking pictures at a time like this!"
Encounters with various people in my south London area this year have been tense and quite often, ill-tempered. The public were nervous, worried, and were prepared to confront the media - especially photographers - to offload their frustrations at how the pandemic was being reported. After a short period of restraint and introspection, I chose to doggedly continue. It is vital to witness and report on a pandemic in all its moods and attitudes - and here is my very minor contribution.
This is a personal 'Best' of 2020 in 80 pictures. Mostly in date taken order (but with a couple of sequence tweaks), I have included some miscellaneous favourite - or simply memorable situations that have kept me on my toes throughout the year of Covid.
From January when we were first hearing about something nasty in Wuhan, to December when all we wanted, was an end to this dreadful year.
But despite all this, I found uplifting moments that filtered the misery all around. These alternatives became welcome visual reliefs - even if they took the form of English Nationalist tattooes; Extinction Rebellion oil spills; spilled pavement noodles; a beach wedding couple and a sunset bather in the Estuary and the beauty of oaks leaves under threat of felling (happily eventually saved).
Many of these images have been published in international media and absorbed into my Insta feed: @richardbakersphotos
Happy New Year.
Encounters with various people in my south London area this year have been tense and quite often, ill-tempered. The public were nervous, worried, and were prepared to confront the media - especially photographers - to offload their frustrations at how the pandemic was being reported. After a short period of restraint and introspection, I chose to doggedly continue. It is vital to witness and report on a pandemic in all its moods and attitudes - and here is my very minor contribution.
This is a personal 'Best' of 2020 in 80 pictures. Mostly in date taken order (but with a couple of sequence tweaks), I have included some miscellaneous favourite - or simply memorable situations that have kept me on my toes throughout the year of Covid.
From January when we were first hearing about something nasty in Wuhan, to December when all we wanted, was an end to this dreadful year.
But despite all this, I found uplifting moments that filtered the misery all around. These alternatives became welcome visual reliefs - even if they took the form of English Nationalist tattooes; Extinction Rebellion oil spills; spilled pavement noodles; a beach wedding couple and a sunset bather in the Estuary and the beauty of oaks leaves under threat of felling (happily eventually saved).
Many of these images have been published in international media and absorbed into my Insta feed: @richardbakersphotos
Happy New Year.
