As the COVID-19 pandemic rushed across the United Kingdom in mid-March, the London-based photographer Emma Mowat wondered how daily life was going to look in the weeks ahead. She wanted to see the public health crisis through other people’s eyes—so she sent 16 disposable cameras to people across the United Kingdom. By leveraging her personal network and Instagram followers, she found collaborators in such places as Newcastle, Edinburgh, Manchester, Sussex, and Stafford. Some of the cameras shot in black and white, others in color; all had 27 exposures, which the…
