A photo essay documenting domestic life during the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic.
Here at The First Hello, we have always been passionate about documenting the raw, real life moments of humanity. We wanted to bring something beautiful to the table during this incredibly unparalleled season.
As birth photographers it’s currently challenging to be allowed into birth suites. It‘s heartbreaking to speak to our heavily pregnant clients who can no longer bring their family members, let alone a photographer, into their birth suites — so we knew we had to find a new story to tell. We didn’t want to stop celebrating humanity.
Life across the world is a bit of a paradox at the moment. The heaviness of the crisis, the joy of the children unaware... the required confinement, and YET, the sweet togetherness... we couldn’t help but want to draw attention to the beauty amongst the ashes.
This is an iconic moment. This is history in the making.
We hope your home is filled with joy and peace in the midst of the turmoil.
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Much love,
Riv & Bel
Single woman and her two roommates add some much needed comic relief to their neighbourhood via a hand painted sign.
A basket hangs from the building stoop to collect the bottles of wine gifted by many of the locals — 12 bottles and counting (at time of shoot).
After closing the doors of their gym due to the COVID restrictions, a man and woman find solace in playing with their little ones.
An exhausted ICU nurse cuddles his son and daughter and readies himself for another long night shift.
After the news of the Tokyo Olympics postponing, olympian Eloise Wellings continues to train amongst boxes on the eve of moving house.
A grade 12 student continues to study for her HSC online from the confines of her house.
The social life of a teenage girl confined to a laptop.
An out-of-work yoga teacher and masters student, now finds herself juggling online study and homeschool teaching her two active young girls.
Mother teaches her two daughters how to blowfish on a window pane.
Fashion Retail owner and mother of three finds a moment of peace reading a novel to her daughters.
Primary age school girl eats a banana on her home school lunch break.
A man works from a makeshift office in his garage, while his wife and baby confine themselves upstairs.
Two brothers have a snack on a home school recess break.
A lawyer works from home while trying to entertain his daughter.
Mother of three navigating the tension of work, breastfeeding and homeschooling.
A pregnant woman at 38 weeks isolating with her family in a house under construction.
Little boy cuddles his teddy while missing his regular visit to his grandparents.
Recess break. Two home schooled brothers find amusement in their Krispy Cream donuts.
Three generations under one roof — a young family move in with their mother/grandmother as their family home is built, requiring them to adhere to strict isolation precautions.
Two brothers play cards under their grandmother’s dining table.
A not-for-profit worker cuddles her family after a hectic week as government restrictions intensify.
A home still filled with laughter in spite of cancelled gigs for this father/musician.
