During the Covid 19 pandemic and the lockdown many artists were thrown back on themselves and started to work creatively with this unprecedented situation. Shortlist artists from all over the world were asked by the Prix Pictet, the leading award for photography and sustainability, and by British daily newspaper, The Guardian, to show their works from the months of the Corona crisis. The result, Confinement, a complex artistic and cultural portrait of this state of emergency, will remain, when the pandemic itself is history.With essays by British historian Peter Frankopan (The New Silk Roads), as well as by Ugandan novelist Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi (A Girl is a Body of Water, Kintu, Manchester Happened).