TITLE: Wave After Wave

From the beginning of the second wave of the pandemic in Hungary, my 87 year old grandma started to take notes of the death toll of the virus. The first registration is 1973 deceased in October 2020, this is the first photograph of this story. Months after the start of the second wave and at the peak of the third one, I took another photograph of the notes on my grandma's coffee table in April 2020. The death toll was 21716 and still counting. These two photographs are framing the other six. They depict how my family (after all my kids) is dealing with the effects of the consecutive lockdowns and the consequences of the pandemic. During these months we ourselves got through this disease, and some of our family members and friends got on my grandma's list...

The photographs (with one exeption) are analog, developed and scanned at home.

AUTHOR: Attila Gazso (Hungary)

I'm an amateur photography enthusiast, husband and father of 4. Besides my everyday job as a store manager at an outlet store I use photography to express myself and tell my stories, reflect on the impacts on my life. I started taking photos 5 years ago, did a couple of local exhibitions and took part in several contests. I was one of the 50 finalist at the 2018 Balkan Photo Fest and won a couple of smaller local photography contests. In 2020 my series "Lockdown Diary" was selected for the Sana Sanaa Corona Call exhibition in Berlin and won a Judges Choice Award in th Documentary Family Awards. Now I'm trying to take my art to the next level.