Gabriele Facciotti
by Gabriele Facciotti from Italy
I’m a sports photographer. I shoot everything where action is involved and I’m totally in love with this genre of photography.
In winter I work a lot in the Ski World Cup industry, covering all the races as a Staff Photographer for Pentaphoto (one of the main Italian Sport Agencies) and as a stringer for The Associated Press. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Due to the new virus scenario, this season ended early. No action, no races, no work…I got bored and sad so I tried for the first time in my life self-portraiture. What I’ve found really hard and frustrating was not having control of our work (and lives too!). With self-portraiture, I found a sort of “therapy,” dealing in something I can control with tools that I know how to use—photography—and it has been a funny way to stay active and creative.
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.
