Quaroutine

As cases spread beyond the gates and walls of our camp, an unlikely sense of community bloomed from the confined freedoms we enjoyed.

Image Credit: Khoi Dang

Army barracks, public schools, and university dormitories were the makeshift quarantine camps that awaited me in Vietnam upon my departure from Australia during the first wave of COVID. As cases spread beyond the gates and walls of our camp, an unlikely sense of community bloomed from the confined freedoms we enjoyed. This photographic series documents the temporal community that formed in this time. It encapsulates the intertwined daily routine of those quarantining and the volunteers who facilitated it, the use of disposable resources and the waste it created — the unlikely harmonisation of chaos and serenity.