Self-Isolation, Day 11: Living Through Windows
“Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.”
— David Bailey
If you didn’t know, David Bailey is my favorite photographer and has had a major influence on my work, so I am that much more excited to share one of his quotes with you all today.
I also want to be open and honest with you all and say that today has been the hardest day of isolation so far. Last week, it was easy to treat it as a vacation from work, and, being someone who generally does not go out much except to go to work, I felt confident in my social isolation abilities. This week, I am starting to miss the presence of my work family around me, and, with all the news about how much worse things will soon get, I am wondering when this nightmare will end. I am someone who tends to be more pessimistic, as I mentioned earlier in this series, and I am having a lot of difficulty making myself excited to get up and do things every day knowing that this is an indefinite situation. I am not going to discuss my political views on this page, because they are not something that I share with the public, but I did want to share my feelings with you all, because I know I am not the only person with anxiety out there who is feeling a sense of serious dread over this virus and its impact each one of us.
As the case has been for the past five years, I am using photography as a way to deal with life as it is; this is something that is integral to my way of being, and, no matter how bad things get or how long this goes on, I will continue to share my work with you all in hopes that you find something relatable within it. All of that being said, I wish each and every one of you the very best, and I will be back again tomorrow.