Superheroes in lockdown

Jake Nowakowski

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Dates: 04 Nov 2022 - 04 Dec 2022

Location: Bondi Beach Promenade Queen Elizabeth Drive Bondi Beach NSW 2026 Australia

Entry Fee: Free

Genres: Portrait

Superheroes in lockdown was produced during Melbourne’s restrictive and prolonged 112-day COVID-19 lockdown in 2020. The subjects are serious cosplayers who would usually spend their days visiting patients in hospitals or attending Comic-Con events, but just like the rest of the Melbournian population, they were confined to their homes.

The series presents the extreme and absurd contrast between these extraordinary subjects and the mundane reality of lockdown isolation that we all experienced.

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Jake Nowakowski

Polish-born, Australian-raised, Jake Nowakowski is an award-winning photographer with over 20 years’ experience in the news industry. With an eye for design from his early years as a graphic designer, he pursued his passion for photography and switched to photojournalism in 2003.

Jake has since worked for numerous publications across Australia in both freelance and full-time capacities, spending the last decade as staff photographer at Melbourne’s Herald Sun.