Pandemic Spring

In March 2020, just as a global pandemic was becoming a reality, Irish-based photographer Gregory Dunn unexpectedly found himself back at his childhood home town of Deal on the Kent coast for an extended period. Armed with a modest compact camera, Dunn set out to capitalise on the opportunity, inadvertently afforded him by Covid-19 and simultaneously record an uncertain future and revisit his past.

Primarily a photobook, Pandemic Spring is also an unusual hybrid of ‘local’ book that contains obscure elements of information of this small corner of East Kent as well as a personal account of the first four months of an unprecedented period of recent history. A new typeface, Type-13 was commissioned specially for this publication.

The foreword was written by the late musician Cathal Coughlan.