Self-Isolation, Day 20: Cold Evening
"Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work."
— Martin Parr
Self-Isolation, Day 28: Solemn, Somber
Self-Isolation, Day 28: Solemn, Somber
“Only photography has been able to divide human life into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence.”
— Eadweard Muybridge
Self-Isolation, Day 27: Tabletop Sunset
Self-Isolation, Day 27: Tabletop Sunset
"For me, the camera is a sketchbook, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity."
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
Self-Isolation, Day 26: Breathe In, Breathe Out
Self-Isolation, Day 26: Breathe In, Breathe Out
“No place is boring, if you’ve had a good night’s sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.”
—Robert Adams
Self-Isolation, Day 25: Mystic Morning
Self-Isolation, Day 25: Mystic Morning
“There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.”
– Henri Cartier-Bresson
Self-Isolation, Day 24: Solace
Self-Isolation, Day 24: Solace
“Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.”
– Peter Adams
Self-Isolation, Day 23: Gray Tuesday
Self-Isolation, Day 23: Gray Tuesday
“There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.”
– Ernst Haas
Self-Isolation, Day 22: At Night
Self-Isolation, Day 22: At Night
“I don’t trust words. I trust pictures.”
— Gilles Peress
Self-Isolation, Day 21: Stroke of Light
Self-Isolation, Day 21: Stroke of Light
“Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.”
— Martin Par
Self-Isolation, Day 20: Old School
Self-Isolation, Day 20: Old School
“The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.”
— Andy Warhol
Self-Isolation, Day 19: Out There, Somewhere
Self-Isolation, Day 19: Out There, Somewhere
“Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.”
— Paul Strand
Self-Isolation, Day 18: Every Hidden Thing
Self-Isolation, Day 18: Every Hidden Thing
“Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.”
— Ansel Adams
Self-Isolation, Day 17: Sunset in Spring
Self-Isolation, Day 17: Sunset in Spring
“Photography is a love affair with life.
— Burk Uzzle
Self-Isolation, Day 16: Bedtime
Self-Isolation, Day 16: Bedtime
“It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it’s another thing to make a portrait of who they are.”
— Paul Caponigro
Self-Isolation, Day 15: Chill Days, Still Days
Self-Isolation, Day 15: Chill Days, Still Days
“You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life”
— Joan Miro
Self-Isolation, Day 14: Vintage Vibes
Self-Isolation, Day 14: Vintage Vibes
“One doesn’t stop seeing. One doesn’t stop framing. It doesn’t turn off and turn on. It’s on all the time.”
— Annie Leibovitz
Self-Isolation, Day 13: Keep it Cool
Self-Isolation, Day 13: Keep it Cool
“What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”
— Karl Lagerfeld
Self-Isolation, Day 12: Food for the Soul
Self-Isolation, Day 12: Food for the Soul
“Without images how would I know what you see? I don't know what you see. I'll never know, but these flat images are the only things that connect up between us.”
— David Hockney
Self-Isolation, Day 11: Living Through Windows
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.
Self-Isolation, Day 10: Reach for the Sky
Self-Isolation, Day 10: Reach for the Sky
“When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.”
— Alfred Eisenstaedt
Welcome to double-digit days!