Elisabette Zavoli
by Elisabetta Zavoli from Rimini, Italy
After 44 days of disconnection from the world “outside,” I started to realize how many of my “normal” life and working situations feel like cages in which I act following codes. It was like if the physical limitations of the lockdown had freed my soul and expanded my consciousness. I felt the need to take off my clothes and hang them neatly on the olive tree in my garden. I’ve taken off the constraints and the regular “shapes” of my used-to-be life and I re-discovered my wilderness by bending my body as a gnarled olive tree.
SELF-PORTRAITS: PHOTOGRAPHERS IN CONFINEMENT
Curated by Svetlana Bachevanova
A collection of self-portraits made by photojournalists from five continents during the unprecedent lockdown due to the corona virus pandemic.
Photographers are people on the road, living to document the lives of others.
Constrained by the lockdown, many of them had their first experience of being still long enough to begin seeing and understanding small details about who they are, their lifestyles and values, that were overshadowed while they were busy. These self-portraits express their experience.
This is a unique collection of self-portraits from some of the best lenses in photojournalism at an historic moment.
Photographers in Confinement is a project in process and I welcome additional submissions from photojournalists at svetlana@fotoevidence.com
I am looking for potential exhibition partners in the USA and abroad.
Svetlana Bachevanova is a founder and publisher of FotoEvidence, long time photojournalist and curator.
