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Photographer Captures Shanghai During Coronavirus Outbreak, And The City Of 24M People Looks Haunting (32 Pics)
The coronavirus has currently affected 28 territories around the world but is concentrated in mainland China. The country accounts for 42,638 confirmed cases out of the 43,104 global ones, and 1,016 deaths out of the total of 1,018.
However, numbers don't necessarily paint a good picture of how the epidemic has changed the country. Photos do. And visual storyteller Nicoco shared a personal project that achieves just that.
One Person City is a photo series that documents Shanghai during the coronavirus outbreak. It does an excellent job of revealing the ghostly emptiness, isolation, and fear that the virus has inflicted on the 24-million-people metropolis, giving us a better understanding of what the locals are actually going through.
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Phoebe Bean 6 years ago
It looks like the spectator is isolated and watching through a hospital window....
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Molly Block 6 years ago
I get chill bumps looking at these empty photographs. I'd love to be there, under different circumstances, though which, I have no idea... It must have a dystopian feel about it....being all alone in a huge city! It's quite exciting, actually, until you start to think about why no one is out and about...
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satan hears a scream 6 years ago
and all of those buildings are empty or close to empty ... mind boggling
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Tia Hansen 6 years ago
That’s a nice view. I would love to go there once all of this blows over! Hopefully.
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Marcia Geiger 6 years ago
Does anyone else see the irony in how clear the air is in these images? I am sad for people who need to earn livings, and products that are either unavailable, or going to waste because no one is going out to buy them, but the virus that is keeping people inside is also keeping vehicles and factories on stand by, leaving the air a lot cleaner. Less pollutants in the air is good news for the people sickened by the virus!
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chi-wei shen 6 years ago
My company's Chinese sales representative is located in Shanghai and he told me via e-mail he could have the entire city almost to himself, but he doesn't want to go out unless it's absolutely necessary. You never know.
Chris Gill 6 years ago
I for one have to wonder how real the "official numbers" are coming from China. I suspect they are low balling the numbers to save face and to not hurt their long term economy and maintain power and control.
DemPugs 6 years ago
Apparently someone posted the real numbers, it was like 150,000 infected and 30,000 dead but no one knows if that was real.
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Carol Emory 6 years ago
That's just eerie...especially considering the population of Shanghai.
chi-wei shen 6 years ago
My company's Chinese sales representative is located in Shanghai and he told me via e-mail he could have the entire city almost to himself, but he doesn't want to go out unless it's absolutely necessary. You never know.
Chris Gill 6 years ago
I for one have to wonder how real the "official numbers" are coming from China. I suspect they are low balling the numbers to save face and to not hurt their long term economy and maintain power and control.
DemPugs 6 years ago
Apparently someone posted the real numbers, it was like 150,000 infected and 30,000 dead but no one knows if that was real.
Load More Replies... Carol Emory 6 years ago
That's just eerie...especially considering the population of Shanghai.
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