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Why we can’t stop looking at pictures of empty cities –COVID-19?

  Psychology has a very funny way that it plays on the human mind and that is how it interacts with human emotions. Although we are hard wired for human interaction, it is those images of emptiness that appeal and satiate the human eye the most.  Have you ever imagined or thought of the possibility of a human apocalypse or extinction? Its hard to imagine and we cant help but imagining what would this world be like without us? There would be unfamiliar and unworldly scenes that would make us stop, look and linger – as if we are the alien peeping into this world from the outside.     Perhaps, this is one of the main reasons why photographers across the world have been able to capture a dystopian glimpse of a world without people as people remain indoors and avoid all public places because of the Covid-19 pandemic.     When there is a crisis we usually think of images such as fires, floods, bombs, warfare, etc. but we never eve...