during the big lockdown, people turned to the arts for comfort. But for those creators used to entertaining live audiences, how did they express their creativity? And how did other creatives not let that wave of sadness that the pandemic brought stifle their imaginations?
An episode of Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror (‘Metalhead’ - the one set after a catastrophic future event, where robotic dogs are ravaging society) might not seem like the obvious reference point for a drag queen photoshoot, but for photographer Babs Daly it felt correct.
After all, Babs was shooting Veda in the midst of an ongoing global pandemic, and an apocalyptic aesthetic proved to be a timely source of inspiration. “The shoot happened towards the end of lockdown, and I wanted to pay tribute to the fact that the world felt like it was ending. I saw that there was this garage near Islandbridge that was abandoned, and we decided to head there. We shot it to make it look like there was no one else around.”