LIFE in LOCKDOWN

A Reigate photographer’s doorstep project captures how her hometown is coping with the coronavirus crisis

- Duncan Hall

Prior to the coronavirus lockdown professional photographer Caroline Pocock specialised in telling families’ stories using natural light.

Towards the end of April she noticed other photographers sharing pictures of families in lockdown on social media, and decided to create her own Reigate project to support East Surrey Hospital’s SASH Charity, having previously taken photographs in the hospital’s neonatal department.

Since April 27, Caroline has captured more than 200 families and raised £4,000 for the charity. “The first couple of weeks were manic – I was doing between 10 to 15 shoots every evening,” she says. “I was doing them on my daily walk – so they were limited to 10 minutes from Reigate town centre.”