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<v ->This is The Zammitt Family.</v>

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So The Zammitt Family

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is part of a massive series

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of mine that I've been doing since early 2020,

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documenting COVID in and around Sydney.

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So I've taken thousands of photos over that period.

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And I guess, was one of the few photographers

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who was constantly out on the streets during lockdown.

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And in that series,

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I've covered mostly kind of community-focused

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issues and situations.

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I'm just trying to capture,

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I guess, the diversity of experience

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that has endured over the last two years with COVID.

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So I met Brian who is over here,

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who's the head of

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a COVID cleaning operation company.

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And I met him deep cleaning a restaurant

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not far from my house back in 2020, I think.

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And I said,

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"What about we take a photo of you and your family?"

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So it's a kind of quirky, on one hand,

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it's a bit of a quirky take

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on traditional family portraiture.

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And on the other hand,

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it kind of is a deeper

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look at how COVID has affected everyone,

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including your typical kind of family,

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which I might call a typical family

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over the last few years.

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"Is this the new norm?"

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I guess, it's asking?