Photos: Quarantine culture thrives on rooftops, balconies and windows

People are self-isolating across the world, either alone or together. The extended periods of time being spent indoors lending themselves to opportunities for finding communities built in a shared experience, with neighbours or previously strangers from balconies, windows and rooftops. A look at the novel ways of community building, self expression and shared motivation captured in these times of enforced distancing.

Updated on: Apr 06, 2020 3:59 PM IST

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Ntsika Ntsele, 13, plays an alto saxophone while his neighbour looks on over a fence, during a three-week nationwide lockdown to try to contain the coronavirus outbreak, in Soweto, South Africa. (Siphiwe Sibeko / REUTERS)

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People exercise on a roof with home-made weights as the spread of COVID-19 continues in Mexico City, Mexico. (Gustavo Graf / REUTERS)

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A woman cleans the terrace outside her window during the lockdown in Kathmandu, Nepal. (Navesh Chitrakar / REUTERS)

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A boy flies a kite from behind the grill of his family house in Karachi during a lockdown after Pakistan shut all markets, public places and discouraged large gatherings. (Akhtar Somroo / REUTERS)

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Danny Wertheimer plays the guitar and sings to his neighbours from his balcony after California’s Governor Gavin Newsom implemented a state wide “stay at home order” directing the state’s 40 million residents to stay in their homes for the foreseeable future in Oakland. (Kate Munsch / REUTERS)

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Adelmo Carvalho, 55, a sales representative who used to play in the church, plays the violin on his balcony as a deliveryman rides past in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Rocardo Moraes / REUTERS)

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DJ and event producer Nash Petrovic live streams a set from his roof in Brooklyn, New York. (Caitlin Ochs / REUTERS)

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Residents exercise on their balconies following fitness trainers in Nantes while a lockdown is imposed to slow the spread of the coronavirus in France. (Stephane Mahe / REUTERS)

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A man and a boy look out from the windows of their home during a curfew imposed by the government in Colombo, Sri Lanka. (Dinuka Liyanawatte / REUTERS)

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Jewish worshippers pray in their homes as they practice social distancing in keeping with government restrictions in Ashdod, Israel. (Amir Cohen / REUTERS)

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A child plays with a goat on a rooftop during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to limit the spreading of coronavirus in the old quarters of Delhi. (Anushree Fadnavis / REUTERS)

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People applaud from their balconies during the ‘Clap for our Carers’ campaign in support of NHS workers in London. (Toby Melville / REUTERS)