Photograph: Dylan Lombard

An exhibition featuring the work of Brian Hartley and Dylan Lombard is due to take place on 18-19 September. This exhibition will be held in the back court of a Pollokshields tenement building.

The Covid-19 pandemic represents a moment in time when we were forced to recognise the fragility of the lives that we lead. The routine, the familiar, the things we simply accepted and took for granted were suddenly changed and we were confronted with a new and uncertain reality. This exhibition of photographs taken during the lockdown of 2020 provide a snapshot of that changed and unique landscape. The eye of the photographer can capture what most of us cannot see - a mood, a feeling, an emotion - and offers a perspective that allows us to make more sense of the world around us.

The decision to hold the exhibition in a tenement garden was not taken out of necessity with the closure of gallery spaces. Instead, it reflects one of the more positive things to emerge from the pandemic: a willingness for people to come together to share and experience things as neighbours and as part of a community. Both photographers embrace that idea and the images they have captured in that sense belong, and are relevant, to all of us.

‘Every picture tells a story’ but that story is told in different ways - all of Dylan Lombard’s photographs were shot in black and white and only during the day, while Brian Hartley’s are in colour and shot during day and night. Neither photographer had met before the idea of curating an exhibition of their work was put to them.

Dylan Lombard is 18 years old and has just left Shawlands Academy. He was diagnosed as deaf aged three, as autistic at seven and as having MDP, an extremely rare syndrome (only thirteen known cases in the world) aged ten. He loves photography, dancing and football, Dylan volunteers in his local community and enjoys raising money for charity and is passionate about disability awareness education. His work was featured in Greater Govanhill in May 2020.

Brian Hartley is a Glasgow-based artist with a multi-disciplinary practice incorporating visual art, photography, design and works in theatre and performance projects and with people of all ages in participatory work. This work often happens in different places nationally and internationally, so when lockdown began in March 2020, Brian found himself, like so many people, having to navigate a sudden stop to the regular working life, and being confined to a much smaller, more local world, the horizon suddenly shrinking.