“The Great Empty” shows the world staying home: The New York Times has created a gallery of photographs depicting the new reality worldwide of ghost towns, abandoned public spaces, and people self-isolating from the covid-19 pandemic that has brought daily life across the planet to a screeching halt. The interactive gallery aptly named “The Great Empty” shows pictures from some of what used to be the biggest, most bustling cities in the world. The image above was taken in the metro of the German city Munich.