This video essay is a quiet walk through Amsterdam during the first months of the Covid-19 pandemic when a city defined by movement was briefly held in stillness.

Shot entirely on a phone and shaped in isolation, the film is an act of observation rather than commentary. Wide compositions and a black-and-white palette explore space during social distancing. While an a cappella rendition of Clair de Lune fills the silence to offer warmth where crowds once were.

Alongside the film I shot a series of 35mm stills to support the project, evoking the language of wartime photography to echo a time when life was suddenly altered.

Made as a personal, cathartic exercise in collaboration with Radical Media, the work was picked up by local news outlets and Shots Magazine.