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About two weeks before lockdown. You can see that she's the only one wearing a mask because it wasn't mandatory then and the fear wasn't so great. Like everyone else, I have so many photographs of mask-wearing but this is the only one that seems to represent it well. Feels isolated especially against that light from the window.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 03.2020
Date Uploaded: 11.2020
Photo Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Camera: E-M1
Copyright: © Paul Seow