These photos were taken in Prague between August 15–25, 2021. Travel had just reopened after the first wave of the COVID–19 pandemic. The streets were eerily empty. Though social life was tentatively starting to resume, the economic devastation is palpable, the sadness overwhelming.
Old Town/Staré Město
Old Town (#1 + 2 Jilská, #3 Na Perštýně) and New Town/Nové Město (#4 Národní třída, #5 Adria arcade)
Old Town (#3 is Old Town Square/Staroměstské náměstí)
New Town (#1 U Stýblů arcade on Wenceslas Square/Václavské náměstí), Old Town, and Karlín (#5 ESKA restaurant and bakery)
Old Town
Old Town + Kampa Island (#6)
National Gallery in Trade Fair Palace/Veletržní palác, Holešovice
Old + New Towns. #1 + 2 are Karel Prager’s former parliament building at top of Wenceslas Square, now part of National Museum. #5 + 6 are crosses painted on the cobblestones in the Old Town Square, in memory of COVID-19 victims..
Old Town
Camera lucida 
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