Photography

Santa Monica’s Playland in the Age of COVID

A Pandemic Photo Essay

Aimee Liu
5 min readOct 11, 2020

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All photographs by Aimee Liu

The Santa Monica Pier under lockdown seems like a ghost land. You can visit, but you may not play. You can imagine the roller coaster’s rumble and the squeals of excited children rising up, up, up in the Ferris wheel, but the sounds live only in your own head.

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Aimee Liu

Author, Asian-American novels (Glorious Boy), nonfiction on eating disorders (Gaining), writing, wellness. Published @Hachette. MFA & more@ aimeeliu.net