Covid Lockdown Photography Challenge

During the first Covid 19 lockdown, Grey Lynn 2030 ran the "COVID-19 Lockdown Photography Challenge - Grey Lynn"

Lockdown was something new to everyone. We wanted to create an opportunity that would allow people in our area to document this difficult, unusual and unique time.

We invited people to take photos of their COVID-19 lockdown lives in their “bubbles” and share them in on Facebook group. Car free streets, home cooking, appreciating nature, and the popular window teddy bears were some of the most uploaded pictures.

The group began on April 14th and remained active throughout COVID-19 Alert Levels 4 and 3.

Grey Lynn 2030 created a video slideshow featuring the images and videos people took across Lockdown as a form of documentation of this unique period in history.

The video was shared out across all Grey Lynn 2030 social media and in the monthly newsletter gaining more than 2,700 views in total. Some of the images were included in the New Zealand book “Hope from Lockdown – A collection of pictures and stories” and the Auckland Central City Library catalogued our slideshow in the “COVID-19 – A Snapshot in Time Archive”.

When Tamaki Makaurau was recalled into Lockdown 2.0 at Alert Level 3 on August 11th, a hive of activity began again on the Facebook group as we encouraged people to continue sharing their photographic efforts.

Thank you to everybody in the community who shared images. It was an awesome visual display of community resilience and togetherness, in a time when connecting and creating together was important.