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Lockdown photo diaries

The Guardian's team of photographers produce their unique take on the lockdown experience during the coronavirus pandemic in the UK

  • Sophie Howard with her daughter Pearl at St John at Hackney church, east London

    Faith during the Covid pandemic – photo essay

    Photographer Suki Dhanda documents how different religious beliefs have helped people come through the coronavirus crisis and lockdown restrictions in England
  • Nathalie Tremlett walks Jacob, a 13-year-old German shepherd who is paralysed in his back legs. His owner, Janet, in her 80s, is retired NHS nurse and arranged for him to be walked by volunteers every day.

    'It’s given me faith back in humanity': the lockdown volunteers – a photo essay

    During lockdown an army of volunteers has been quietly undertaking essential everyday activities that have become impossible for those shielding from Covid-19. Guardian photographer Alicia Canter has spent the last month tagging along
  • The Thames at low tide, seen from Greenwich

    Finding calm: the Thames at low tide during lockdown – in pictures

    Photographer David Levene found himself drawn to water, and the capital’s river at low tide, for his second lockdown photo diary
  • A horse and rider exercise as the sun sets on the beach at Filey.

    The North Yorkshire seaside resorts during lockdown - a photo essay

    Photographer Gary Calton spent his childhood holidays on the beaches of North Yorkshire. Over the past few years he has returned during winter to enjoy its rugged beauty. Here he describes how the pandemic has affected the resorts, leaving them empty and soulless
  • Aven and Reed sit on their bedroom windowsill.

    Bringing up baby twins during lockdown - a photo-essay

    Photographer Katherine Anne Rose’s twins were six months old and her older son was three when the first lockdown began in March last year. Here she describes life during the pandemic at home in Glasgow with her young family
  • Linda Nylind's lockdown diary

    Surreal dreams in lockdown: a photo diary

    Lockdown felt like the dark days of a surreal dream to the photographer Linda Nylind. She reflects on this feeling over the winter period
  • A lone figure crosses a square that is usually full of city workers

    Ghost City: lockdown London – in pictures

    Photographer Andy Hall has been photographing the Square Mile throughout the pandemic, and has seen the financial centre turn into a ghost town of empty buildings and lone security staff
  • A murmuration of starlings over Blackpool’s north pier

    Unilluminated: Blackpool in lockdown – in pictures

    Despite its empty promenade and quiet beaches, Blackpool charms our photographer Christopher Thomond once again
  • City of London

    Looking up: the sky in lockdown – in pictures

    Photographer Martin Godwin has been focusing on the sky for inspiration in the third lockdown
  • Home hairdressing in lockdown

    Capital scenes: London's third lockdown – in pictures

    Photographer Jill Mead has been capturing scenes on the streets of London during the latest lockdown
  • October 2020: college students Olivia Bartlett and Sianne Clabin shelter from the rain outside a newsagents in Huddersfield

    Northern encounters: lockdown life in Yorkshire – in pictures

    ‘These images are fleeting moments of the everyday,’ says Guardian and Observer photographer Richard Saker.
  • Brighton’s beach hut locks

    Locked down in Brighton – in pictures

    Photographer Antonio Olmos takes his daily exercise along the 3km beachfront in Brighton and Hove documenting 423 of the beach huts
  • A crew member uses an ice axe to clear frozen sections of Harperrig Reservoir

    Canoeing along Scotland's Union Canal – in pictures

    Guardian photographer Murdo MacLeod and crew embarked on a lockdown exploration of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal in a Canadian canoe
  • Seascape photography (using multiple exposures) at Chapel Porth, north Cornwall. Created in January 2021 as part of a lockdown 3.0 diary project for The Guardian. 
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    Land's end: multiple exposures of the wild Cornish coast

    A series of multiple-exposures created on the coastline of north Cornwall during lockdown 3.0
  • Trying to find the joy and the light in amongst the darkness

    Abstract moments of light in lockdown – in pictures

    Guardian photographer Sarah Lee finds comfort and relief from the lockdown by using her camera to focus on the quiet beauty among the darkness

  • A cyclist rides through Stevenson Square as two men chat over a takeaway coffee outside a closed restaurant and bar

    Manchester's northern quarter in lockdown – in pictures

    Reflections in the windows of cafes, restaurants and shuttered shopfronts in Manchester’s Northern Quarter during the third national coronavirus lockdown
  • Ironmonger Row Baths

    Deep dive: empty swimming venues during lockdown – in pictures

    In the last of our lockdown diaries series, photographer David Levene visits some of his favourite swimming venues in London
  • Night riding in lockdown

    Night riding in London during the lockdown – in pictures

    Photographer Sarah Lee shares her observations from her daily bike rides as autumn slides towards winter and things get darker
  • Climbing instructor Andy Swann bouldering at Colour Heugh, Back Bowden crag, near his home in Northumberland.

    Outdoor climbing in the second lockdown – in pictures

    ‘Many of my favourite pastimes such as community ocean rowing and sea kayaking have been seriously disrupted by the pandemic but outdoor climbing has been mostly possible in one form or another. It has helped protect my sanity during lockdowns and extended periods of restrictions. It has flexibility in that it can be done in nearby quarries, crags or in the mighty mountains’
  • Martina and Sara enjoy the Christmas lights in a shop windown on Regents Treet

    'It's all so much harder now': London's second lockdown – in pictures

    Photographer Jill Mead roams around London for the third part in our series of lockdown diaries documenting the second full lockdown in England
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