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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Esther Addley; Photographs by Hannah Grace Deller

‘So much death and upset’: the nurses quitting the NHS after Covid – a photo essay

A woman plays a cello in a garden in front of a washing line hung with blue nurses' uniforms
Nurse Natasha used to play the cello to the Covid patients. Photograph: Hannah Grace Deller

Hannah Grace Deller works as a paediatric matron at St Mary’s hospital in Paddington, central London. She is also a trained photographer, and during the Covid crisis she began to photograph the conditions in which she and her nursing colleagues were working. Some of her images were published widely and exhibited at the time, earning praise from Grayson Perry, Martin Parr and others, and inspiring an album by Chris Difford, of Squeeze.

She has now published a book, Working on the Frontline, documenting the experiences of nurses and the reaction of the public during the crisis and since.

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