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Diary Curation by Stephen Mayes

Marking FOTODEMIC’s one year anniversary, we asked critic, educator and creative director Stephen Mayes to curate a selection of the +400 diary entries we’ve received throughout this year.

 
 

THE JOURNEY

It has often been noted that photographers (and documentary photographers in particular) have a fondness for the road, to be out and exploring without limitations and free from the constraints of the walls and routines that constitute a home. They are notoriously difficult to domesticate. It was a special shock to these free spirits to find themselves grounded by the COVID-19 pandemic, locked down in the attempt to contain the Coronavirus, trapped for months at a time in rooms that quickly came to feel like prisons for their bodies and their souls.

It was in these rooms that the truly adventurous embarked on a more difficult journey, an inward adventure that would challenge their beliefs about themselves and force a confrontation with truths that maybe they had been ignoring and even avoiding. And like any great journey, the difficulties that are at first annoying give way to revelations and discoveries that reward and enrich. 

Fueled by the indignity and unimaginable frustration of domestic routine the results have a blinding intensity, proving again that great creativity is revealed when forced to circumvent apparently insurmountable obstacles.

 
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Journey’s featured artists:

Acknowlegments

SVETLANA BACHEVANOVA and her curatorial series: SELF-PORTRAITS: PHOTOGRAPHERS IN CONFINEMENT

 
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400 dairies

160 artists

29 countries

 

Thank you to all the artists who contributed to FOTODEMIC’S first year:

Aidan Loughran

Aji Susanto Anom

Alan Morroquin

Ale Ruaro

Alejandra Ortiz de Zevallos

Alejandra Rajal

Aleksandr Kolodin

Alexey Yurenev

Ali Smith

Alicia Vera

Amelie Koerbs

Amir H.

Amir Hamja

Amira Karaoud

Amy Elkins

Ana Vallejo

Anatoli Ulyanov

Andressa Ce

Andrew Lichtenstein

Andrey Borodulin

Andrés Yépez

Angela Pimentel

Angelo Arantes

Anita Pouchard Serra

Anna Watts

Annie Forrest

Annie Grossinger

Aoife Casey

Arek Rataj

Argha Bose

Arkadeep Mitra

Ashkan Shabani

Australia

Azad Amin

Benjamin Rusnak

Billy Hickey

Bishnu Goenka

Camilla Ferrari

Carlos Bernate

Catarina Lay

Celine Croze

Charlotte Schmitz

Chisco Valdés

Chris de Beer-Procter

Christina Abdeeva

Colin Pantall

Cristian Caceres

Daiana Valencia

Dana Golan

Daniel Harel

Daniela López Amézquita

Daniela Rivera Antara

Danielle Villasana

Davi Russo

Daša Geiger

Desyree Valdiviezo Palacios

Diana Takacsova

Diego Ibarra Sánchez

Dudu Contursi

Dylan Quintero

Edison Lucas

Ekaterina Esebua

Eli Farinango

Elisabetta Zavoli

Elizabeth Montana Myers

Elizabeth Sobieski

Erica Canepa

Estefania Ramos Ron

Eva Verbeeck

Fatma Fahmy

Federico Pestilli

Fernanda Rocha

Fernando Zelaya

Francesca Bergamini

Francisco Urzua

Gabriel Munhoz

Gabriele Facciotti

Gabriella Baez

Ghadah Alrawi

Gaia Squarci

Gili Benita

Giovanni Del Brenna

Giuliano Berti

Guilherme Bergamini

Guligo Jia

Hayley Lohn

Hugo Passarello Luna

Héla Ammar

Idealita Ismanto

Ilan Parienté

Ira Lupu

Irina Butkovskaya

Jackie Dives

Jashim Salam

Jennifer Drabbe

Johanna Alarcón

John Leopold

Jorge Sato

Jose Antonio Rosas

Josué Rivas

K. Flo Razowsky

Kai Yokoyama

Kang-Chun Cheng

Karen Brunel Lafargue

Karen Brunell Lafargue

Karen Marshall

Kate Warren

Keri Oberly

Kersti Jan Werdal

Khaled Hasan

Kika Antunes

Kiki Streitberger

Kimberley Ross

Lauren Taubenfeld

Laurence Philomene

Lee-Ann Olwage

Leon Estrada

Lexi Parra

Liliana Merizalde

Lizzy Myers

Louise Quignon

Lucia Buricelli

Lucia Vazquez

Lucía Morón

Ludovica Bastianini

Macarena Tabia del Solar

Makis Makris

Malyutina Natalia

Marcela Cavalcante

Marcia Charnizon

Marcio Rodrigues

Marilene Ribeiro

Marta Novikova

Maryam Khasawneh

Marylise Vigneau

Marzena Skubatz

Mathias Zwick

Matthew Wong

Maxi Cohen

Mette Lampcov

Michael Barkin

Minik Bidstrup

Minik Bidstrup Petersen

Moa Karlberg

Monique Soria

Morena Pérez Joachin

Muhammad Hidayat

Myriam Meloni

Nadège Mazars

Naomi Ben Or

Natalia Drachinskaya

Natalia Malyutina

Nava Derakhshani

Nazik Armenakyan

Nelly Ating

Nevena Dzamonja

Nicholas Sansone

Nick Mehedin

Nicole Vanden Broeck

Nina Riggio

Nivando Bezerra

Noa Raviv

Noemí Pascual

Nolan Ryan-Trowe

Nora Savosnik

Ogulcan Arslan

Oksana Parafeniuk

Olivia Fernandez

Oscar Castillo

Paola Jiménez Quispe

Paola Martinez Fiterre

Paolo Quadrini

Patrick Brown

Patrick Mulcahy

Paul Ninson

Peer Kugler

Quirijn Menken

Rafaella Castagnola

Ranita Roy

Rebecca Fudala

Rian Dundon

Rico Cruz

Rivkah Gevinson

Roger Anis

Ronojoy Sinha

Roy Baizan

Rômulo Dos Santos

Sabrina Srur

Sade Akin Boyewa El

Sagnik Bagchi

Sam Smith

Sandeep Biswas

Sandra Hoyn

Sara Terry

Sarah Stacke

Saul Robbins

Sebastián Montalvo

Sebastián Zuleta Ríos

Shannon Elder

Sharon Pulwer

Simone Perolari

Solange Quiroga

Sourojeet Paul

Sumeja Tulic

Susmit Sarkar

Svetlana Bachevanova

Sylvia Sanchez

Tahila Mintz

Tatyana Gogoleva

Tete Silva

Theo Tajes

Trip Peters

Valeria Pushenko

Valeria Tedeschi

Valery Melnikov

Victoire Mandonnaud

Vladimir Kurashov

Vodka Vida

Ximena Echague

Ximena Natera

Xiomara Rivas

Yana Nosenko

Yasaman Dehmiyani

Ye Fan

Yen Duong

Ying Ang

Yuvraj Khanna

Zoe Ambra Innocenti

Zoe Potkin