Marzena Skubatz
by Marzena Skubatz from Berlin, Germany
This is a photo of myself in my bathroom at home. Living in this so contradictory reality, which was dominated by distance and hygiene, gave me the feeling of living more than ever before in a bubble. I have switched off my thoughts and withdrawn emotionally. I took more baths than usual. They gave me ease.
During the covid-19 self-isolation I was living alone in my apartment trying to understand what was happening around me and inside of me. Photography became a tool that helped me not only to document the process but also trace my feelings and thoughts and to organize them. It was the only way for me to hold onto this contradictory and difficult time and to be able to grasp it.
While I felt like I was part of an experiment that I haven't signed up for, photography helped me to keep going.
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.
