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Loulou d'Aki

An empty street in Athens’s Plaka district on November 9, 2020. In Greece, the second wave of COVID-19 cases is proving to be more damaging than the first. According to authorities, over half of the country’s 1,000-plus coronavirus fatalities have occurred since October 18.

A sunset cruise from Santorini's old port in Fira is usually filled with tourists. This summer, the number of tickets sold was down 96 percent. Tables are marked with stickers indicating the number of people allowed around each table.

Women dance to music during a private panegyri celebration in Kamba, a mountain village on Ikaria. The official panegyria celebrations—a community festival held in honour of the village church’s patron saint and which Ikaria is famous for—were canceled this year due to the pandemic.

A museum guard at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens wears an obligatory face shield while watching over one of the exhibition halls.

People soak in the sun at Mesakti Beach on the island of Ikaria, Greece.

Angelika Lymperi and Alexandra Mpeleri, two nurses who work for the Hellenic National Public Health Organisation, prepare a COVID-19 test for a traveller at the Athens International Airport.

A couple visits the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. The columned Parthenon is usually surrounded by tourist crowds, but this year, due to the novel coronavirus, tourism to the country has dropped precipitously since March.

For Greece-based photographer Loulou D’Aki (who is Swedish), spending time in Japan during coronavirus was a mixed bag. “Being far from both my homes, the adopted one and the homeland, was emotionally quite taxing,” she says. “I would follow the news and talk to friends and family, but in times of crisis like this, it felt wrong to be on my own on the other side of the world. Japan had a very different way of handling a situation like this. When I arrived, they had already figured out how to keep the pandemic at bay. This made me feel calm on the one hand, but quite lonely on the other.” D’Aki shot this image of masked women in Tokyo’s Jimbocho neighbourhood before returning to Sweden in late March.