Highlands photographer John Swainston is set to launch his photography book 'Sydney Locked Down', which captured two years of the COVID pandemic.
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He will also be showing his exhibition during the Arts Trail.
The launch and exhibition will take place at the Arthead Gallery in Moss Vale on November 5 -6 and 12-13.
There will be 33 fine art prints from the book on exhibition.
The work started on March 28, 2020 in Bowral.
It then covered the City of Sydney and suburbs during the first lockdown of April and several others subsequently.
The work concludes with the reopening of the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House on July 22, 2022.
"I felt the pandemic needed a visual record. I started the work as Sydney shut down, while also closing up a rented apartment there and consolidating in the Highlands," he said.
"That first month, I thought at the time, would form the story and planned publication in winter 2020.
Little did I know that it would take several years of our lives, leave us with long term health issues and that we would be still living with this life-changing virus three years later."
The exhibition marks the publication of the 144-page book, which comprises various views of Sydney without people, mainly at night, and then tells the story of some of the people and places as reopening tentatively started up in 2021, more forcefully in 2022.
The book, Sydney Locked Down, is available during Arts Trail 2022 for a launch price of $34.95 inc. GST, thereafter for $39.995 plus postage and packaging ($5.75.)
Editioned A3-sized prints from the exhibition are available for purchase at $350.00 or framed at $500.00.
Full details of Arts Trail 2022 can be found at https://www.artsfile.com.au/arts-trail-2022/. The shows feature more than 80 artists in 51 studios and 8 galleries across the Southern Highlands.
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