Being in the city for this shoot was an unnerving experience. In the seven years I’ve lived here, this is the emptiest Melbourne’s ever felt – both figuratively and literally.

These images were shot the day before stage-three restrictions were put in place and Victoria essentially went into lockdown. But it was clear the people of the city had well and truly moved before the government had.

Entire shopping arcades were deserted, and the only people on the street seemed to be Yarra Trams staff cleaning handrails, construction workers waiting for their shifts to end, and the homeless and underprivileged, many of whom have nowhere to go.