For the record

On the ethics of documenting a pandemic

Filmmaker Francesca Tosarelli, who has covered COVID-19 in Bergamo, Italy, one of the hardest-hit areas to date, considers her role in chronicling a crisis where the best course of action is to remain home

9 April 2020
What does history look like in real time?
In this collection, photographers reflect on documenting important world events as they happened.

Highlights include Blake Wood on photographing Amy Winehouse, Misan Harriman on capturing the urgency of London’s Black Lives Matter protests, and Stephen Dupont on documenting Afghanistan’s ‘Forever War’.