Marylise Vigneau
by Marylise Vigneau from Retz, Austria
Self-Portrait with Wind and Scythe, part of the series Frozen Spring
This last six months have stripped time naked and beyond, it is like I could see its bones and it is vertiginous.
Photography has always been for me a powerful mean to fight restlessness.
I tend to find solace in the uncanny rather than in the pretty.
While the pandemic was spreading like wildfire more than ever.
I live on the countryside one hour away from Vienna and 10 minutes from the Czech/ Austrian border. During more than two months, the Iron Curtain had become impassable again after 30 years. A Europe of borders was rising from the dead while the wildest benighted conspiracy theories were to be heard.
I was free to roam around on my scooter in the vicinity, in search for inspiration. In Austria, we did not need to fill a form to justify why we were out. It did not really feel like confinement but like a slow burn dysphoric script.
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.
