Connor Merrison, A day at the beach in a Pandemic (LANDSCAPE 2021)

Bondi Beach, the popular tourist spot in Sydney's east sees thousands of tourists daily lays eerily quiet for a Saturday in December holidays, The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic crippling Bondi's tourism economy at the time of year when local business's thrive. Local Surf life savers that patrol this beach have a quiet December on their hands with the sparsely populated destination, their Christmas tree on the beach the only giveaway to the fact its what would be peak tourism season any other year, 2020 being no ordinary year.

Images have been resized for web display, which may cause some loss of image quality. Note: Original high-resolution images are used for judging.