Newcastle\’s Covid response documented through photography bbc.com

An amateur photographer who found himself at the centre of the Covid-19 pandemic has told how he documented the response in Newcastle.

Tom Warburton, director of city futures at the council until his recent retirement, has spent almost two years capturing the highs and the lows as the city \”really pulled together\”.

Armed with his camera, he started the project on 16 March 2020 when council managers were called for a briefing at the Civic Centre – the first socially-distanced event they had seen.