(Stay at) Home
What’s a photographer to do during the pandemic? Stay at home and take pictures, of course. Which is not as simple as it sounds. These new circumstances make you look afresh at your surroundings—and notice how little you usually see. You become even more aware of light as the driver of an image—how soft morning sun and fiery afternoon blaze can radically transform the same scene. You see symbols—a cabbage head on the counter may be a nice still life, but a cabbage head suffocated in plastic has some meaning these days. You’re keenly aware that your shifting mood guides your camera—are you drawn today to light or gloom, hope or despair? You notice and pay attention and seek, as we all do now, solace and beauty and sustenance in the everyday.
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