Time to Pause: Nurses face down Covid and illuminate our shared humanity

In March 2020 renowned photographer Alistair Morrison awoke, like millions of others, to pandemic lockdown. Faced with the prospect of long-term isolation, he found the only way possible to continue his work: through his computer screen.
Morrison would use technology to speak with, listen to and photograph 1,000 people around the world about their experience in the Covid pandemic. The conversations would last 9 ½ minutes and the portrait shoot would require only 30 seconds. He called the project Time to Pause.
Part-way through Time to Pause, Morrison met Global Dignity and was struck by its mission: teaching the concept of dignity-every person's equal and inherent value-and how to build an environment of dignity around each and every one of us. Global Dignity and Morrison began to collaborate around how to apply the art of conversation to put dignity into action: fostering connection, inclusion and sense of our shared humanity with a measure of care that had been lost in our busy everyday schedules.
This video exemplifies just one of those many connections created during Time to Pause--between three nurses facing down Covid in different parts of the world.
Like with so many other Time to Pause participants, their connection and friendship grew. Steph, Teresa and Lisa did talk and they continue to talk regularly.