Public Project
Truck Quarantine (Covid-19)
Created during India’s 2020 COVID-19 lockdown, Truck Quarantine is a remote documentary experiment born from denied physical access. Sayan Hazra collaborated with three stranded truck drivers on National Highway 6 via messaging apps, guiding them to photograph and voice-record their lived experiences. Co-authored in real time, the work foregrounds testimony over spectacle, using participatory visual ethnography to question authorship, access, and representation. As global supply chains froze, the truckers’ images and voices formed a visceral archive of abandonment and resilience. Rooted in care, constraint, and ethical digital intimacy, the project proposes a new vocabulary for contemporary documentary practice.
This was archived by Cortona On The Move as part of The Covid-19 Visual Project — Chapter 4.09, an international permanent online archive on the coronavirus pandemic.
This was archived by Cortona On The Move as part of The Covid-19 Visual Project — Chapter 4.09, an international permanent online archive on the coronavirus pandemic.
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