Multimedia Project: "America we will never see again"

During the first wave of the coronavirus, we were too frightened to discuss what we were going through. Changes in lifestyle, rhythm, habits, social norms and value systems simultaneously hit the world. But now that life is slowly returning to a more or less familiar rhythm in many countries, it is a good time to rethink everything that has happened to us, everything we have experienced. It's a good time to tell stories. Because even though it has only been a year, we are already starting to forget those frightening emotions. But it's also a good time, because we still remember the shock of facing the new reality. For my family, it was more than just hearing the news on TV. We were truly in the midst of an oncoming pandemic. The most obvious decision was to cut the trip short and return home. But we made the decision not to deviate from the planned route. That decision led us on a most unusual journey. The aim of this project is to create a multimedia project "America We Will Never See Again", based on the Alekseevs family's trip around the United States during the start of the coronavirus pandemic from March 14 till March 28, 2020. The project will be implemented in the format of a website combining various audiovisual types of content: photo and video files, personal diaries, field notes, Instax photos and audio messages. The aim of the project was to recreate an image of America that a family of travellers who decided not to change their vacations because of the pandemic. The truth is that even American citizens did not have the opportunity to see their country the way my family did, because they had strict "stay at home" orders, which, however, did not restrict us, as it only applied to US citizens. No one was watching the tourists.