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.”
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