2020: The Year in Diaries
Where do we go from here?
by Natalia Malyutina, Lexi Parra, Rico Cruz, Sagnik Bagchi, Jorge Sato, Kai Yokoyama, Maxi Cohen, Rian Dundon, Andrey Borodulin, Roy Baizan, Kersti Jan Werdal, Matthew Wong, Nadège Mazars, Ekaterina Esebua, Sarah Stacke, Tatyana Gogoleva, Alexey Yurenev, Rivkah Gevinson, Noemí Pascual, and Amir H.
We started FOTODEMIC eight months ago, guided by the question: “what can we do as image-makers during this time of profound change and uncertainty?” The Diaries platform exists as a collective archive of work made around the world. Since April, we have published over 400 entries from 29 different countries. These are just a few of our favorite submissions, curated to show the humanism and imagination we set out to embrace. Some reflect inward, offering an introspective view of people’s experiences, and others look outward, highlighting the nuances and similarities shared by people from different countries and backgrounds. Both offer insight to what it was like to be alive in 2020. As we approach 2021, we continue to ask ourselves the question: “Where do we go from here?”
from All Inside (My Screw Is Not Loose Yet) by Natalia Malyutina
from Cuentos de Curentena | Quarantine Tales by Lexi Parra
from Home is Burning by Rico Cruz
from Mother at Home by Sagnik Bagchi
from Microcosmos Jorge Sato
from The Day You Were Born, I Wasn’t Born Yet by Kai Yokoyama
from Watching TV Gave Me a Sore Throat by Maxi Cohen
from Pandemic Photo City by Rian Dundon
from Pandemic Photo City by Rian Dundon
from Self-Isolation of a Russian Village by Andrey Borodulin
from FTP 4 by Roy Baizan
from Trees by Kersti Jan Werdal
from Who Are You Talking To? by Matthew Wong
from The Bare City by Nadège Mazars
from Quarantine by Ekaterina Esebua
from The Day You Were Born, I Wasn’t Born Yet by Kai Yokoyama
from The Bookmark Between Before and After by Sarah Stacke
from Becha | Spring by Tatyana Gogoleva
from NY Says Goodbye by Alexey Yurenev
from Something Forever by Rivkah Gevinson
from Now You See Us | Story 4 by Noemí Pascual and Amir H.
