Fernanda Rocha
by Fernanda Rocha from Ferrara, Italy
Week 12 of Quarantine. The most beautiful moment of the day was the sunset, with warm colors reflected from the wheat field before harvest time.
Visual Diary of a Quarantine (Ferrara, Italy. March-June 2020) is a series of photos documenting my days during the extraordinary period lived around the world, as a consequence of the pandemic caused by Covid-19.
I was in my first year of life in Italy, when the disease started to hit the country badly. It was the first place, after China, suffering this unknown and strange situation while the rest of the world looked with fear.
From the beginning of the confinement, I felt drawn to my camera, this time an opportunity to document my little safe world, my everyday life in a countryside area in the center of the Italian Peninsula. It started as a way of understanding that we were going through a situation without precedent, a historical period, it was something not only happening to me, it was the entire world going through the same thing, and we still are…
SELF-PORTRAITS: PHOTOGRAPHERS IN CONFINEMENT
Curated by Svetlana Bachevanova (USA/France)
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.
