Amanda Waite is a historical image cataloguer, working from home in Streatham, 2021.

“I started working from home a week before the first lockdown last March because someone I had been in contact with me told me he had covid symptoms. My employer had already set me up for homeworking, but I remember sitting at the desk in my front room, looking out of the window and knowing that the world had changed dramatically. I watched people walking past and I had a sense of unreality, I was worried I would lose my job, get ill, die - and here I am nearly a year later still in the same job. I feel remarkably lucky. I had my first jab of the Pfeizer vaccine late January.."