Ranita Roy
by Ranita Roy from Kolkata, India
In my quarantine life, I started to care about little things in life. I am learning to love myself... self-love matters.
Around the world, COVID-19 cases are increasing day by day and in India the situation is becoming worse. I am a photojournalist so I go outside for assignments and I feel very paranoid sometimes. When I came back from Jakarta, Indonesia in March, I faced aggressive behavior from local people. After 14 days quarantining in my home, things became normal and I now enjoy my time at home doing creative work.
I created this work to show how we all are stuck at home and cannot go out. Photographers are used to working almost every day outside and traveling to different places. But now we all are stuck. Sometimes it feels very claustrophobic.
During my home quarantine, I was all alone so I started photographing myself, my desire, and vulnerability through photographs. Here the photographs reflect self-love and how I am growing within this pandemic situation with myself.
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.
