OnSpec/Pandemic • Surviving as a Woman
With families in lockdown, and social services unavailable, experts say domestic violence is increasing, and being ignored during the coronavirus outbreak. Menel Raach talks to a woman in Iraq...
OnSpec/Pandemic • Rediscovering Our Kitchens
You probably know someone who has discovered their inner chef in the last few months. In New York, photographer Jackson Krule discovered he was a baker. Unable to go...
OnSpec/Pandemic • Mental Health in Isolation
How is being on lock down effecting our mental health, and how are mental health professionals trying to continue to provide help when they cannot meet someone in person?...
OnSpec/Pandemic • Prisons and COVID19
What if you don’t have control over your own self-isolation? More than two million people are in prisons in the US, which has the highest incarceration rate in the...
OnSpec/Pandemic • Alone but not Lonely
Whether you live across the street, or across the Atlantic, for many of us social distancing now means you cannot meet in person. Your family, your friends, that person...
OnSpec/Pandemic • Face to Face with the Virus
What’s it like to have COVID19 in Turkey? Hilaneh Mahmoudi, a freelance photographer in Istanbul, spent weeks trying to not catch it, but one day the tell tale symptoms...
OnSpec/Pandemic • Faith Interrupted
You might think you’re further away from the world, but in many ways the pandemic is bringing us together. We begin with the religious, those who turn to faith...
OnSpec/Pandemic • Through Children’s Eyes
What has quarantine been like for children during the pandemic? Are they finding their creative little selves and building stronger family ties? Or turning into online zombies and losing...