Wednesday 20 October 2021

See Naples and Live – 5: Beauty and the Mask

©Nigel Summerley
























Readers of An Odyssey in the Year of the Plague (see this blog, March to October 2020) may remember this masked woman whom I photographed in the window of a Naples pharmacy last year. Like everyone around at that time, she was properly covered up.

A year on, she seems to be following the UK government's guidance (ie you don't have to do anything if you don't feel like it) rather than the rules in Italy, where carrying a vaccination certificate and wearing a mask is a fact of daily life. At Napoli Centrale railway station the other day I saw an armed cop remind the only person in the place who wasn't wearing a mask to put one on straight away...

Anyway, below is how Our Lady of the Pharmacy appears this week: maskless and fancy free.

It's might just be me, but I think she looks much more alluring with her mask on... doesn't she?

©Nigel Summerley


























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