Empathy Museum announced that in collaboration with the NHS and The Health Foundation, a new photography and audio installation, will be launched to tell diverse stories from people around the UK as a record of life in 2020. The installation will be available online at empathymuseum.com from Thursday 10th December and the photographs will also be displayed alongside QR codes to access the audio interviews in London and then around the UK. ‘From Where I'm Standing’ is made up of 34 portraits, each accompanied by an audio story and a photograph of an object that reflects the time period for the individual. Spanning the length of the country from Truro to Harrogate, the stories include nurses and doctors, an Imam working in the Nightingale, an undertaker, a Rapper, the Director of Long Term Planning for the NHS, checkout staff and a care home entertainer who secured the job to see her dad. Intended to create a museum archive of the period – recording in real time what will become a key historical period of the 21st century, it looks at what the pandemic has to teach us about empathy as well as exploring resilience, wellbeing, interdependence and what sustains us during challenging times.
The project is funded by Arts Council England, NHS England and the Health Foundation.
