At a certain point of the Covid19 crisis, Tinder took down location restrictions, so we could choose any spot on the map and reach out to potential lovers all around the globe. Regular dates turned into zoom dates and virtual sex experiences. Love letters turned into endless messenger chats. The process became perfectly comfortable for introverts.
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Nata Abashidze-Romanovskaya
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Virtually yours: Romance during the pandemic
I met Tedo when he was four, a kid with amazingly big black eyes, so deep you could drown in them. Tedo was diagnosed with autism when he was two years old and when I met him, he was living in his own world and rarely communicated with the people around him.
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Isolation. Quarantine. Virus. Pandemic. Those are the only words we seem to hear these days. Staying isolated, all of us, we try to stay sane and keep busy. As a photographer, I am an observer in any situation. Being at home 24 hours a day, seven days a week allowed me to witness all the daily habits I usually miss: what we eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner; how addicted we are to our gadgets.