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Staying Sane in lockdown - a photographic journey

Dec 01, 2021

Staying Sane - Lockdown walks around Haslemere with a camera by Jane Puttock

Staying Sane is a photographic record of walking in and around Haslemere during the Pandemic. It covers 483 days from 23 March 2020 to 18 July 2021 and includes 528 images.

In many ways, life wasn’t too different for me in lockdown. I am self employed and work from home and I was lucky enough to have lots of work but as soon as you are told you have to stay home, all you want to do is go out!

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I have no outside space at home and this led to a Lockdown feeling of being trapped, so to get out of the house, I started walking in the local area and, of course, I took my camera. The weather was endless blue sky and being by myself in such a beautiful place, close to nature and recording the things I saw, really helped me Stay Sane.

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As Covid restrictions ebbed and flowed, my walks took me in different directions, sometimes close to home, particularly around Swan Barn which I can see from my studio window. I revisited childhood walks in Hammer and explored and found new places in the local area. When we were allowed to travel, I would go further afield - all the images in this book are no more than an hour from Haslemere and most much closer to home.

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I shared my images online and was ‘persuaded’ by Brian Howard, that I should make them a permanent record of lockdown.

The result is Staying Sane, a hardback book which has been produced with the sponsorship of Redh and that we are selling with all the proceeds going to support local community projects via the Haslemere Hens/Haslemere Festival including several projects for next years Jubilee.

Staying Sane ... is now available to buy at The Haslemere Book Shop as well as directly via the website. It will also be for sale at the Haslemere Christmas Market on the 5th December.

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