COVID-19
I had an idea for a project the second I heard about the lockdown in London for the virus Covid-19.
We have flats across the street that you can see into, a whole bunch of strangers that ordinarily you might not meet or speak to. But once the lockdown got announced, suddenly the people in your immediate vicinity are the only people you’ll probably see for a while. Everyday you could see people going about their routine but all clearly stuck indoors. It was a real strong image of how together we were in our isolation and how weird it was to be in this position.
So I put a sign up asking to take pictures from my window of anyone who’d be interested. Within an hour I had people message me up for taking pictures - which was cool, it felt like meeting the neighbours! We were shouting across the street from our windows setting up times and introducing ourselves, and it was just really cool to see people willing to let a complete stranger shoot them in a weirdly distant but intimate way. Any other time and I don’t think this would have turned out the same way but in this weird period of quarantine, there was clearly a sense of solidarity and desire for human connection that opened people up to it.
As a side note, it made me realise that my work is more often than not about isolation, which is something I’d never really picked up on. Weird how it’s all come full circle.
I hope you find something in these, they were really fun to do.
COVID-19
I had an idea for a project the second I heard about the lockdown in London for the virus Covid-19.
We have flats across the street that you can see into, a whole bunch of strangers that ordinarily you might not meet or speak to. But once the lockdown got announced, suddenly the people in your immediate vicinity are the only people you’ll probably see for a while. Everyday you could see people going about their routine but all clearly stuck indoors. It was a real strong image of how together we were in our isolation and how weird it was to be in this position.
So I put a sign up asking to take pictures from my window of anyone who’d be interested. Within an hour I had people message me up for taking pictures - which was cool, it felt like meeting the neighbours! We were shouting across the street from our windows setting up times and introducing ourselves, and it was just really cool to see people willing to let a complete stranger shoot them in a weirdly distant but intimate way. Any other time and I don’t think this would have turned out the same way but in this weird period of quarantine, there was clearly a sense of solidarity and desire for human connection that opened people up to it.
As a side note, it made me realise that my work is more often than not about isolation, which is something I’d never really picked up on. Weird how it’s all come full circle.
I hope you find something in these, they were really fun to do.
COVID-19
I had an idea for a project the second I heard about the lockdown in London for the virus Covid-19.
We have flats across the street that you can see into, a whole bunch of strangers that ordinarily you might not meet or speak to. But once the lockdown got announced, suddenly the people in your immediate vicinity are the only people you’ll probably see for a while. Everyday you could see people going about their routine but all clearly stuck indoors. It was a real strong image of how together we were in our isolation and how weird it was to be in this position.
So I put a sign up asking to take pictures from my window of anyone who’d be interested. Within an hour I had people message me up for taking pictures - which was cool, it felt like meeting the neighbours! We were shouting across the street from our windows setting up times and introducing ourselves, and it was just really cool to see people willing to let a complete stranger shoot them in a weirdly distant but intimate way. Any other time and I don’t think this would have turned out the same way but in this weird period of quarantine, there was clearly a sense of solidarity and desire for human connection that opened people up to it.
As a side note, it made me realise that my work is more often than not about isolation, which is something I’d never really picked up on. Weird how it’s all come full circle.
I hope you find something in these, they were really fun to do.
COVID-19
I had an idea for a project the second I heard about the lockdown in London for the virus Covid-19.
We have flats across the street that you can see into, a whole bunch of strangers that ordinarily you might not meet or speak to. But once the lockdown got announced, suddenly the people in your immediate vicinity are the only people you’ll probably see for a while. Everyday you could see people going about their routine but all clearly stuck indoors. It was a real strong image of how together we were in our isolation and how weird it was to be in this position.
So I put a sign up asking to take pictures from my window of anyone who’d be interested. Within an hour I had people message me up for taking pictures - which was cool, it felt like meeting the neighbours! We were shouting across the street from our windows setting up times and introducing ourselves, and it was just really cool to see people willing to let a complete stranger shoot them in a weirdly distant but intimate way. Any other time and I don’t think this would have turned out the same way but in this weird period of quarantine, there was clearly a sense of solidarity and desire for human connection that opened people up to it.
As a side note, it made me realise that my work is more often than not about isolation, which is something I’d never really picked up on. Weird how it’s all come full circle.
I hope you find something in these, they were really fun to do.