the journey
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.
Journey’s featured artists:
Acknowlegments
SVETLANA BACHEVANOVA and her curatorial series: SELF-PORTRAITS: PHOTOGRAPHERS IN CONFINEMENT
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