Kiki Streitberger
by Kiki Streitberger from London, England
During the recent lockdown due to the coronavirus outbreak, I spent a lot of time at home in my flat in London. While I enjoyed the first couple of weeks, I felt increasingly trapped – as if there was a world somewhere out there and I was no longer part of it. Inspired by Donald Trump’s doubtful advice to inject oneself with disinfectant to combat the virus, I took pictures of myself and treated them with all the different sanitizers and cleaning products I had used in my house during those lockdown months. The results are portraits, which appear as in a weird dream or under water... removed from the world I used to know. They show cracks and scratches, which I felt appear in myself during this time.
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.
