April 2020

Sydney In Stillness

In 2020, as the world held its breath, Sydney fell quiet. Streets once alive with footsteps and laughter stretched out in silence. I wandered through the city with my camera, drawn to the hush that had settled over its bones, capturing a world paused between what was and what might be.

These photographs invite you to walk through a Sydney you may have never seen — or perhaps remember all too well: the hollow streets, the stillness, the waiting windows. A city holding its breath. This black and white series is a love letter to a city stripped bare. Without the pull of color, every shadow deepens, every glimmer of light sharpens. Empty benches, vacant laneways, hushed harbors — all stand as silent witnesses to a collective moment of waiting, of longing, of quiet resilience.

There was beauty in the emptiness, in the strange poetry of absence. I wanted to capture not just the hollow spaces, but the heartbeat beneath them — the way a quiet city still hums with memory, with hope.

These images invite you to walk alongside me through a Sydney you may have never known, or one that still lingers in your memory: a city wrapped in stillness, reminding us that even in the loneliest hours, even in the quietest places, something endures. This is a portrait of a city in waiting — tender and haunting.

Throughout this project, I took care to follow all health and safety precautions, photographing only within my local area and at appropriate times, ensuring that the work honored not just the city’s beauty, but the responsibility we all shared.

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