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COVID-19 & Beyond

March 26, 2026 admin SHOP

People pass by banners and street arts related to the recent protests from Black Lives Matter in Brick Lane and Shoreditch, London Photo Copyright: Erica Dezonne

Photojournalism Hub presents COVID-19 & Beyond, a powerful photographic collection reflecting on one of the most pivotal moments in recent history and the profound, lasting consequences that continue to shape our world today.

Emerging from an international open call launched by Photojournalism Hub director Cinzia D’Ambrosi at the height of the pandemic, COVID-19 & Beyond brings together, for the first time, this vital body of work in a single publication following its debut as a physical exhibition. Both long-awaited and deeply necessary, this collection offers an urgent and collective reflection on the pandemic and its aftermath.

Featuring compelling work by photographers from London and across the globe, the book documents lived realities and bears witness to a crisis that did not affect everyone equally. While COVID-19 was a shared global event, its impact exposed and intensified existing injustices and structural inequalities. Marginalised communities faced disproportionate risks, losses, and restrictions, as longstanding issues around housing, migration, race, women’s rights, access to healthcare, mental health, and freedom of expression became further entrenched.

Through photography, personal testimonies, and reflections, COVID-19 & Beyond amplifies voices too often excluded from dominant narratives. It is both a record of an extraordinary and traumatic period and a critical lens on its enduring consequences, physical, emotional, economic, and political.

More than a retrospective, this book asks urgent questions about the present and the future: Where are we now? What has changed? What has been normalised? And where are we heading?

As Cinzia D’Ambrosi reflects:
“The pandemic acted as a catalyst, accelerating social change, widening inequality, and reshaping our relationship with power, rights, and accountability. In many ways, it forced humanity to confront its own fragility—marking a moment when collective survival, dignity, and justice were fundamentally challenged. Yet many questions remain unanswered. The struggle did not end when lockdowns were lifted.”

To order a copy: HERE

Beneath the Forest’s Footsteps by Leonardo Petrucci

March 26, 2026 admin Featured photographers, Photo Stories

Photojournalism Hub is delighted to present Leonardo Petrucci as our Featured Photographer. His work explores diverse societal themes, with a primary focus on community across Italy. In this work, Petrucci presents the photo story Beneath the Forest’s Footsteps showing a post-war communal revival of a rural area.
Petrucci explains: “Until the Second World War, the Campanara area was a thriving agricultural zone: the valley was dotted with wheat fields and inhabited by numerous farming families, who lived in scattered rural houses. As in many rural areas of the Apennines, the years following the war saw a strong depopulation. Homes and farmland were gradually abandoned, and nature slowly reclaimed its space. We are on the border between Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna, sheltered by the Apennines. Hidden deep within the forest, and still difficult to reach today, lies Campanara, a singular place dominated by a church that has never been deconsecrated, standing beside an ancient rural house.
From the 1960s onwards, Campanara became a small “hippie” commune, an experiment in communal living that attracted dozens of people. Over time, however, the area experienced a new wave of depopulation, until only one family remained to preserve its original spirit.
Silvia is considered one of the “souls” of Campanara, a figure who has kept the initial vision alive through the decades. Her children and grandchildren grew up on the mountain and, in turn, have contributed and continue to contribute to the evolution of this way of life.
Theirs is a story of resilience. They have faced isolation, the restoration of abandoned buildings, and the creation of a sustainable way of living in an area long left to itself. They chose to step away from consumerism and the fast pace of modern society, rediscovering values such as sharing, solidarity, and self-sufficiency.”

About the photographer

Leonardo Petrucci (Rome,1999) is a photographer specialized in photojournalism and reportage.
With a keen focus on socially and anthropologically relevant themes, his work seeks to explore the human experience in relation to the cultures and habits of the places they live.
Narrative lies at the core of his works, as he combines texts and images to reconstruct stories of places and people .
His work aspires to remind us that, no matter the differences, human experiences are deeply interconnected.

Leonardo Petrucci www.leonardopetrucciphoto.com
@_leonardopetrucci