Taiwanese reflect on pandemic success with studio selfies

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'I want to tell everyone to treasure their every breath of fresh air.'

Inside a cramped studio, Jane Chen pulls a mask from her face, breathes in deeply and presses a remote camera shutter for an art project documenting how Taiwan has coped with the coronavirus.

The island has been hailed as an example of how to stop the virus in its tracks, with just seven deaths and around 450 cases. So she invited friends and strangers alike to take portraits of themselves in masks, accompanied by a handwritten note documenting their experiences. The first month of the outbreak felt like an apocalypse, Liu said, recalling the panic-buying and anxious queues for face masks.

Notes left by other subjects reveal how the virus has upended lives, even in a place left relatively unscathed by the pandemic. Dressed in his uniform, airline pilot Kevin wrote how he now has to spend weeks in quarantine each time he flies to a new country and when he returns home.

 

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