Isolation Portraits
So here we are.
In April of 2020, I and my entire creative team lost a dream job. Feeling shocked, I found myself stuck at home because the world had just closed only weeks earlier. Life stood still. Impulse and necessity led me to take on a personal project to complete 50 portraits in a month. It was frenzied. I went from working with a corporate team on multiple large and varied projects, to absolutely nothing doing. With nowhere to go and no way to distract myself from sudden unemployment in a new pandemic, being a single parent with kids home from school, new rules for society, a scary virus. I coped with it by finding something big to do — I tore into this project and very nearly burned myself out.
I wanted to capture people's unique versions of isolation. Some in personal hell, others delirious like me, some really enjoying it, while others seemed to be just riding it out. My ask was for them to send me a selfie in the moment — unposed, unmade-up, unfiltered. It had to be spontaneous, like this project.
Here are some of them.