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  My latest set of pictures continues a series of impressions of Porto during the Covid-19 lockdown. The images in this portfolio were taken between March 24 and April 11, 2020 and can be viewed via the following link: https://georgeromanation.com/portfolio/porto-portugal-in-the-time-of-coronavirus-march-24-april-11-2020/ Stay well and be safe! – GR / 10.V.2020 –

With social distancing weighing heavily on everyone’s mind, the sentiment expressed by this graffiti is in our hearts. – GR / 2.V.2020 –

Love Song, Porto, 24.IV.2020.   Stay tuned for more images from Porto during this extraordinary time.                                                  – GR / 30.IV.2020 –      

Confronted with wearing masks and visor shields in the time of the Coronavirus, we can imagine that the mannequins in this boutique are protected by the shop window. However, the figures in the middle and on the right seem to step through the glass as if breaking their isolation with the outside. We are all […]

Porto is a city full of beautiful and faded architectural details, among them, doors that bare their age and endurance in chipped, wrinkled textures. For me, the chain locked door in this image represents a barrier, or defense from ominous, outside forces, especially in this time of the Coronavirus. – GR / 23.IV.2020 –

“ God” and “Charity,” inscribed on the facade of the eighteenth century Igreja de Santo Ildefonso, are on the minds of many in the time of Coronavirus. – GR / 17.IV.2020 –        

  Porto, Portugal has been in lockdown since mid-March. This city, normally vibrant and pulsating with life, is now mostly silent. Starting with my previous set of photos (see “recent work”) and continuing with today’s image, I plan, from time to time, to give you a glimpse of this deafening silence. Let us look forward to […]

  Personal circumstances brought me to Porto in late February before this city and the rest of the world was taken over by Covid-19. I have been able to photograph this urban landscape from normal life to its current state of isolation. The six photos that appear on my site were taken just at the […]

– Rua das Flores, Porto, Portugal, 2020 – Art on the street, late February. – GR – 6 Mar. 2020        

–  NoHo, Manhattan, USA, 2018  –   Street art in New York evokes the late 1970’s.   GR 2 February 2020