Pandemic Playgrounds

• Prize
  Bronze in Press/Other
• Photographer
  Sandra Hoyn, Germany
• Website
  https://www.sandrahoyn.de
• Instagram
  https://www.instagram.com/sandrahoyn/

The German government has ordered all playgrounds closed during the Covid-19 pandemic. The coronavirus can stick around on surfaces for a long time. Even if children are practicing social distancing on the playground, they are still touching the same surfaces.

Sandra Hoyn (b. 1976) is an independent photojournalist based in Hamburg, Germany. She studied photography at the University of Applied Sciences Hamburg, graduating in 2005. She started working for magazines, NGOs and on her personal photo projects, focusing on social, environmental and human rights issues.

Awards 2017 she received the first prize of the Sony World Photography Awards in category daily life and POYi – Pictures of the Year International third place category portrait. In 2016 she received the Magnum Photography Award in category photojournalism, 2015 World Press Photo Award third prize, category nature singles.