Lockdown Baby // Guardian Weekend

Lockdown Living - My portraits of writer Richard Godwin and his newborn son for a piece in the Guardian Weekend about having a baby in lockdown. I had assumed it was probably a pretty good time to have a baby (impending doom concerns aside), with lots of time at home and nowhere else to go. Chatting to Richard I quickly realised I hadn't considered the many downsides of bringing a little person into the world at this time. I had heard horror stories from another friend of fathers not allowed to accompany their partners to check ups and even the birth! That is pretty heartbreaking. The implications on a child born at this strange and sanitised moment in history are interesting.