UNDER SIEGE
Pacific Beach is a beach community within boundary of "American Finest City" San Diego, where I've lived for twenty plus years. It has rich characters: beautiful beaches, a vacation hotel on a pier, vibrant neighbor restaurants and bars. People-wise, it mixes in and out-town tourists, local young hippie residents, ocean surfers, plus numerous of homeless people. I have been attracted to this place since I moved to Southern California. I don't know exactly why it seduces me, but I guess that the unpolished, unpretentious real community surroundings awaken my sense of humanity. In fact I am working on a long term photograph project to document Pacific Beach and its people's lives.
Like everywhere else, Coronavirus hits Pacific Beach very hard. I don't know how many people get infected, but the virus sticks the town badly economic-wise, with multiple closed-down, stay-in-home orders by the government. I do not visit PB as often as I wish this year. But I did go serval time, tried to get a sense of what was going on there under Covid-19's clouds. The project is a glance of what happened under my candid camera.
January 27
News of Coronavirus still was far away in other side of Pacific. No case found in California yet. Pacific Beach was till in a carefree mood.
March 24
The First day of state-wide locked down ordered by the California Governor. It's a usual sunny day with a gloomy outlook.
August 28
Not visited Pacific Beach for almost five months. By the time of the Summer, the fear of virus subsided a little bit. I decided to check out it again.
December 5
December 6
Credits:
Sunstone Photography