Nelly Ating
by Nelly Ating from Yola, Nigeria
My life was pretty normal until March when the media was flooded with the word isolation. With my personal projects, I explored shadows and their connection with freedom of movement into places before our bodies. In isolation, coupled with the daily news, stay at home hashtags that flooded social media, I felt trapped. Solitary confined in my one-room apartment sometimes with no electricity, no means of escapism. I was reminded that my shadow was truly trapped longing for freedom.
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.
