Over 217 days of the second lockdown in Berlin, photographer Tanya Sharapova cycled around the city with one goal – to photograph one stranger every day. Strangers came as an attempt to build connections with others during increasingly isolated times and in creating this series, Sharapova overcame her own loneliness and fear of talking to strangers. The project, which was originally planned to only last one month, became a documentary story about Berlin and its citizens as the lockdown continued to be extended several times. Not only did the process connect people together momentarily, but after the last portrait had been taken, it culminated as a permanent record of this period. It serves as a personal and public diary of the experiences and lives of Berliners during this peculiar time.
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