Abstract

The People's Picture: Online

A giant photo mosaic was created by the People’s Picture and unveiled as part of the #massisolationFORMAT project at FORMAT21 International Photography Festival, installed at Quad, Derby. Inspired by the 1937 Mass Observation project, FORMAT invited people to use the hashtag #massisolationFORMAT to create a visual record of the Covid19 crisis on Instagram. This mass-participation project, set up at the beginning of the March 2020 lockdown, received over 40,000 photo submissions from 90+ countries, sharing people’s experiences living through a pandemic.