While 2020 will always be remembered as the year of the pandemic, there were events beyond COVID-19 that marked this year too. Here is a look back at 2020 through photography featured in The Bermudian.

 

Although Harrington Sound is a place of great scenic beauty, it is also unique from a biological and geological perspective. In the Spring issue, writer Elizabeth Jones explored its distinctive waters, wildlife and surroundings. Photograph by Alex Pilgrim. Click to read more. 

 

 

In the Spring issue, we celebrated the 26th annual Building & Interior Design Awards, sponsored by Rowe Spurling Paint Company. Photograph by Ann Spurling. Click to read more. 

 

To mark the outbreak of COVID-19 in Bermuda, Jayde Gibbons donned the Bermuda mask (created by Bermemes and Coral Coast Clothing) on the cover of Crow’s Nest in the Summer issue of The Bermudian. Photograph by Meredith Andrews.

 

 

 

 

And in the same issue, we featured photography by Jayde Gibbons, taken during Bermuda’s lockdown in April. Click to see more. 

 

 

Also in the summer issue, we profiled five of Bermuda’s young environmental activists dedicating themselves to protecting Bermuda’s natural environments while raising awareness, educating and sounding the alarm on climate change and the effects on Bermuda – and the planet. Photograph by Chris Burville. Click here to read more on Choy Aming, Meredith Andrews, Beth Neale, Stratton Hatfield and Jessica Rego. 

 

 

 

 

After 30,000 public votes, we celebrated the 30th annual Best of Bermuda Awards! Cover photograph by Nhuri Bashir. Click here to see the winners.

 

 

In October, The Bermudian was awarded several prizes at the International Regional Magazine Association Awards, including the Silver Award for Nature and Environment Feature for “For the Love of Lobsters”. Read more here. 

 

In our fall issue, we focused on health and wellness, and celebrated our 2020 Health Hero, biomedical researcher and head of Bermuda’s COVID-19 testing lab, Dr. Carika Weldon. Photograph by Alexander Masters. Click here to read more. 

 

 

 

The Honorable Premier David Burt graced the cover of our Winter issue. Photography by Nhuri Bashir.

 

 

 

To read the full interview with The Honorable Premier, pick up a copy of the winter issue, on newsstands now. Photography by Nhuri Bashir.

 

 

And to close out 2020, we celebrated the 18th annual Product & Service Awards, presented by Butterfield. Pictured here: Zina Edwards and Nikki Fagan of The Brand Lion, winner of Best Advertising/Marketing Agency. Click here to see the full list of winners.