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Southwest Sydney’s faces of lockdown in photos
In a special photo series we meet the people living on the frontline of our suburbs hit hard by lockdown.
2/27FACES OF LOCKDOWN: Kapil Dhawan, 28, from Parramatta. Photo: Jeremy Piper
3/27FACES OF LOCKDOWN: AK, 27, from Parramatta in Blacktown. Student and young mum. Photo: Jeremy Piper
4/27FACES OF LOCKDOWN: Nayaz Ahmed, 38, stockbroker from Blacktown. Photo: Jeremy Piper
5/27FACES OF LOCKDOWN: Joseph Xuereb, 19 year old, Apprentice Bricklayer from Blacktown. Can't work due to restrictions. Photo: Jeremy Piper
6/27FACES OF LOCKDOWN: Homage Cafe owner, Liza Chehade, 35 years from Parramatta in Parramatta. Opened the cafe two years ago in homage to her brother-in-law who died of brain cancer. Photo: Jeremy Piper
7/27FACES OF LOCKDOWN: Emma Jenkins with her two sons Jasper, 4, and River, 23 months at her home in Abbotsbury. Picture: Christian Gilles
8/27FACES OF LOCKDOWN: Sam Shamoun from Yennora in Fairfeld. Photo: Jeremy Piper
9/27FACES OF LOCKDOWN: Mum Hong who is a part-time teacher at Cabramatta pictured with her children Callum, 7, Eloise, 5, and Theo, 1. Picture: Christian Gilles
10/27FACES OF LOCKDOWN: Jim Muscat, 71, of Winston Hills in his Vintage Dodge. Due to Covid restrictons he unable to see his wife who is in care and his son, daughter and grandkids. Photo: Jeremy Piper
11/27FACES OF LOCKDOWN: Joelle, the window cleaner in Guildford. Photo: Jeremy Piper
12/27FACES OF LOCKDOWN: Mona Alkhoury, 66, of South Wentworthville working as a pharmacy assistant at St Anthony's Pharmacy in Guildford. Photo: Jeremy Piper
13/27FACES OF LOCKDOWN: Senthil Govindaraj, 36, Wentworthville machine operator. Photo: Jeremy Piper
14/27FACES OF LOCKDOWN: Samarjeet Kaur at the New Sydney Bakery in Fairfield. Photo: Jeremy Piper
15/27FACES OF LOCKDOWN: Un-named pharmacy worker poses for a photograph. (didn't want his name to be used ) Working behind screening in Fairfield. Photo: Jeremy Piper
16/27FACES OF LOCKDOWN: Anthony Howard, 52, self described "Wenty Houso" Constitution Hill. Photo: Jeremy Piper
17/27FACES OF LOCKDOWN: Baker Evan Alhamal, 38, Baghdeda Bakery in Fairfield. Photo: Jeremy Piper
18/27FACES OF LOCKDOWN: Rodney Dombrowski, 54, of Pendle Hill at the Pendle Hill Meat Market. Photo: Jeremy Piper
19/27FACES OF LOCKDOWN: Jeremy Agha of Merrylands at the Yum Yum Bakery, Guildford. Photo: Jeremy Piper
20/27FACES OF LOCKDOWN: John, 37 and Emily, 35, of Westmead and their three-month-old baby Ethan. John is a software developer and Emily is an accountant on maternity leave. Photo: Jeremy Piper
21/27FACES OF LOCKDOWN: Jessica Lam, 48, of Fairfield working at the Guildford Hot Bakery. Photo: Jeremy Piper
22/27FACES OF LOCKDOWN: Pablo Esparza, 34, scaffolder and partner Najara Ortiz, 28, cleaner and student in Liverpool. Photo: Jeremy Piper
23/27FACES OF LOCKDOWN: Steven Jones, Principal of St Patrick's Primary School in Guildford. Photo: Jeremy Piper
24/27FACES OF LOCKDOWN: Quang Nguyen, 75 years old, waters his garden in Cabramatta. Photo: Jeremy Piper
25/27FACES OF LOCKDOWN: Mohamad Hamdan, 32, of Homebush Abdow Brothers Bakery owner at Guildford. Photo: Jeremy Piper
26/27FACES OF LOCKDOWN: Parwana Parwana, 20, of Guildford, at the New Sydney Bakery in Fairfield, where she works. Photo: Jeremy Piper
27/27FACES OF LOCKDOWN: Neeraj Srivastiva, owns Udaya Textiles, Udaya Supermarket and Udaya Spices at Station St Wentworthville. Photo: Jeremy Piper
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