At the end of March I headed up to Orlando to shoot some photographs for Bloomberg Businessweek. They wanted me to to document the impact that Covid-19 was having on the tourism and restaurant industry.

This was before the real chaos had started. Everything was terrifying, I guess it still is. I remember driving around in my truck listening a Sporkful Podcast about whether or not you could contract the virus from takeout food We still knew so little, we still know so little.

The morning was cool by Florida standards, no clouds in the sky. I got off I-4 and started drifting through Disney World at random. It was eerie. Normally everything would have been packed to the gills with a mass of humanity eagerly seeking congress with a giant smiling mouse, on this morning however that world had been deserted.

I was having trouble capturing the strangeness of it all. How do you photograph what’s not there? I snapped some photos of empty parking lots and empty roads, a drive by frame of someone jogging on the side of an empty highway but they weren’t translating.