Family quarantine

© Paolo Bona - Milan, Italy April 18, 2020My son Mario, 10 years old, plays Tetris on laptop late at night. © Paolo Bona - Image from the Family quarantine photography project © Paolo Bona - Milan, March 15, 2020During the first few weeks, this puzzle kept me company. I consider this picture like a self portrait. View all images ↓
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  • Dates
    2020 - Ongoing
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  • Topics Daily Life, Social Issues, Documentary
  • Location Italy
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This story is about my family's dailylife during the long quarantine cause by the Covid-19 in Milan, Italy.

Like any photographer, I immediately felt the need to tell about this pandemic caused by Covid-19.

In the first days on the deserted streets of the center I met many colleagues, Milan was in the spotlight of the whole world, after Wuhan the virus had moved here.

But the silence that enveloped us has encouraged me to lay my eyes within the home, where I could tell the quarantine in a more personal way.

 

Life had disappeared from the streets, but not for this had ceased to exist.

Everything continued to take place inside the home: school, work, sports activities, social relationships with relatives and friends; thanks to the applications of our smartphones.

I told my family during 2 long months of isolation, my wife Paola, who continued to work from home in smart working mode, my 10 year old son Mario who is in fifth grade, and my 9 year old daughter Margherita who is in third year.

© Paolo Bona - Milan, Italy April 18, 2020My son Mario, 10 years old, plays Tetris on laptop late at night.
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Milan, Italy April 18, 2020 My son Mario, 10 years old, plays Tetris on laptop late at night.

© Paolo Bona - Image from the Family quarantine photography project
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Milan, March 15, 2020 At the end of the first week of the lockdown, a flash mob is organized #I stay at home, which invites Milanese citizens to look out the window and wave the torches on the phone with a sign of resistance. My wife Paola and Mario look out the window with the smartphone light bulb on.

© Paolo Bona - Milan, March 15, 2020During the first few weeks, this puzzle kept me company. I consider this picture like a self portrait.
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Milan, March 15, 2020 During the first few weeks, this puzzle kept me company. I consider this picture like a self portrait.

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Milan, April 30, 2020 My son Mario, 10 years old, makes his first phone call with his new banana-phone. Because of the forced isolation, as parents we decided to anticipate the use of his own mobile phone to stay in contact with classmates.

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Milan, April 21, 2020 My children Mario and Margherita, training one a week with their football team, the Kids United, connected via Zoom.

© Paolo Bona - Milan, March 19, 2020The kitchen table becomes a pin pong table.
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Milan, March 19, 2020 The kitchen table becomes a pin pong table.

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Milan, March 19, 2020 My daughter Margherita, 9 years old, goes into the courtyard to throw the garbage, the only opportunity to leave the house to get some air. Mask and gloves were not yet required to leave the house.

© Paolo Bona - Milan, March 22, 2020My 10-year-old son Mario washes his hands.
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Milan, March 22, 2020 My 10-year-old son Mario washes his hands.

© Paolo Bona - Milan, March 30, 2020My daugheter Margherita helps me tidy up my analogue archive.
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Milan, March 30, 2020 My daugheter Margherita helps me tidy up my analogue archive.

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Milan, April 08, 2020 My son Mario, who is on fifth grade, takes his home school lesson via Zoom. On their children room’s door a handwritten sign invites parents to have fitness and massage, that was an activity that kept them busy on the first week os quarantine.

© Paolo Bona - Milan, March 15, 2020My son Mario helps on houseworks.
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Milan, March 15, 2020 My son Mario helps on houseworks.

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Milan, March 21, 2020 After the first week of isolation, we exposed my daughter Margherita's drawing to the window, with a surreal desert road under our building house.The rainbow drawn by all the children of Italy.

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Milan, March 15, 2020 On sunday morning we got used to follow on Youtube father Paolo Alliata, who commented on the Gospel in a very modern way, making a lot of assonaces with literature.

© Paolo Bona - Milano, March 15 2020Making a yoga lesson with a virtual master online.
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Milano, March 15 2020 Making a yoga lesson with a virtual master online.

© Paolo Bona - Milano, April 13, 2020Mario and Margherita observing insects on our balcony. Hard times for kids in quarantine.
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Milano, April 13, 2020 Mario and Margherita observing insects on our balcony. Hard times for kids in quarantine.

© Paolo Bona - Milano, April 05, 2020.Happy to play online with friends at Skribble, an opportunity to share some quarantine time.
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Milano, April 05, 2020. Happy to play online with friends at Skribble, an opportunity to share some quarantine time.

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Milan, April 19, 2020 My wife Paola organized a gala dinner with other families connected via Zoom. Elegant clothes even if at home to eat lentil soup, to keep morale high.

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Milan, April 26, 2020 Making breakfast for mum, wrongly thinking that it was the Mother’s day, that came two weeks later. In quarantine you lose control of time.

© Paolo Bona - Milan, March 30, 2020My daughter Margherita, 9 years old, and my wife Paola, listen to an audiobook before going to sleep.
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Milan, March 30, 2020 My daughter Margherita, 9 years old, and my wife Paola, listen to an audiobook before going to sleep.

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Milano, April 14, 2020. Mario and Margherita listen to the goodnight tales of the Italin writer Gainni Rodari, read and commented by Father Paolo Alliata.