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In 2020, the UK entered its first lockdown. Daily life retreated behind closed doors and no one knew what the months ahead would bring.
This Was Us is a story in pictures, bringing together the work of fourteen photographers who documented this extraordinary period of our social history. Together, their photographs create an important record of what life was really like for ordinary people living under severe restrictions.
As the COVID Inquiry seeks to conclude its investigations, this book stands as a testimony to all who lost loved ones or whose lives were changed in ways they are still finding difficult to understand.
Specifications
Published by F8 Books
300 × 230mm Landscape
180 pages, 134 images
his project was successfully funded on 18th June 2026; you can still support it with a donation here.
Featured photographers:
Andrew Moore, Barry Lewis, JJ Waller, David Sládek, Ed Sykes, David Collyer, Alys Tomlinson, Bex Day, J. A. Mortram, Ruth Toda-Nation, Olivia Harris, Alan O’Connor, Kieran Doherty and David Gilbert Wright.
“Thank you for producing This Was Us. I think it is important to remember this period in our lives that is all too fast fading from memory. I lost my mother-in-law during COVID due to cancer. She was rushed into a care home. We were not allowed to visit and slowly she died alone. Subsequent distanced funeral. Father-in-law was suffering from dementia and confused, unable to understand A horrendous time. This book encapsulates the whole period and experience. Amazing images and heartbreaking stories. What makes me really angry was the total mismanagement of lockdown, blatant touting of rules by those in power, and the underhand profiteering with nobody brought to account. Thank you once again.”
Barry Scaffold
In 2020, the UK entered its first lockdown. Daily life retreated behind closed doors and no one knew what the months ahead would bring.
This Was Us is a story in pictures, bringing together the work of fourteen photographers who documented this extraordinary period of our social history. Together, their photographs create an important record of what life was really like for ordinary people living under severe restrictions.
As the COVID Inquiry seeks to conclude its investigations, this book stands as a testimony to all who lost loved ones or whose lives were changed in ways they are still finding difficult to understand.
Specifications
Published by F8 Books
300 × 230mm Landscape
180 pages, 134 images
his project was successfully funded on 18th June 2026; you can still support it with a donation here.
Featured photographers:
Andrew Moore, Barry Lewis, JJ Waller, David Sládek, Ed Sykes, David Collyer, Alys Tomlinson, Bex Day, J. A. Mortram, Ruth Toda-Nation, Olivia Harris, Alan O’Connor, Kieran Doherty and David Gilbert Wright.
“Thank you for producing This Was Us. I think it is important to remember this period in our lives that is all too fast fading from memory. I lost my mother-in-law during COVID due to cancer. She was rushed into a care home. We were not allowed to visit and slowly she died alone. Subsequent distanced funeral. Father-in-law was suffering from dementia and confused, unable to understand A horrendous time. This book encapsulates the whole period and experience. Amazing images and heartbreaking stories. What makes me really angry was the total mismanagement of lockdown, blatant touting of rules by those in power, and the underhand profiteering with nobody brought to account. Thank you once again.”
Barry Scaffold