#quarantine photography

[disease]

Quarantine Ward — Overhead view of a special ward. The patients' beds are separated by screens. Everyone wears a mask. Nets hang from the ceiling.

[meltlilies]

i think my favorite genre of ves and kerry vp i take is 'staring longingly at my beautiful wife'

[oliviahathawayphotography]

Quarantine-themed Christmas light display of Christmas trees in a a quarantine bubble (snow globe). Christmas, 2020.

Redbubble / Instagram / Online portfolio

[dyingroses]

Throwback to the times I tried to imitate paintings while quaranting and finishing uni in a hotel room.

[postcard-from-the-past]

Quarantine Island in Aden, Yemen

British vintage postcard

[genocidalfetus]

Vilem Davydkin, now the proud papa of an apartment gremlin named Nibbles or Nibby as Johnny calls her *he'll deny it though, but Vilem heard him do it. lol*

[eiraisnthere]

Found some self portraits from December of 2020.

[tsu1404]

Taking the night shift: A walk in the dark

Michelle Ha

January 31, 2024

Desolate street in the night time, London, England in 2020. © Pippa Healy

Through the looking glass

My phone is my visual diary

Pippa Healy is a London based photographer. Most of her projects focus on using photography as a diary, capturing the pleasant and unpleasant parts of her life in the past and present from the camera of her phone. The themes around her projects center around loss, longing and violence, to name a few. This photo is a part of her project titled: “I want it all to go back to the way it was before”. This project was made in 2020 and it features photos of her life during the first few weeks of quarantine back in London.

Living in virtual reality

The digital glitches symbolize our fragmented reality and how we all felt at the time; confused, bewildered, frustrated.

These highly digitized photos contrast from her previous projects that are more raw. This photo was taken and edited on her iPhone 11 during one of her walks at a street near her house, she would edit the photos during her walk to really capture and document her walks instead of editing them once she was sitting back home. The most noticeable aspect of this photo is how vivid and saturated the colours are on the photo to the point where it doesn’t look natural anymore. She chose to digitize these photos using her iPhone because she was pulled into the virtual world by the multitude of alerts, notifications, and news that were constantly brought up on her phone. We really started integrating into the virtual world and she incorporated that by heavily altering the photos and adding digital elements like glitches and high contrast colours similarly to T.V colour bars and VHS tapes.

Captivating imagery

This photo appeals to me because of the meaning behind the project that this photo is in and the aesthetic qualities of the photo. I think the meaning in this photo is clever because the meaning is told through the scenery and the editing of the photo of how we started merging into the virtual world during lock-down. I think the lock-down in 2020 felt unreal to us and it’s something we never saw coming into the new year, at that point everything was online such as work and school. So much was happening on the outside, but we were only able to act and experience it from our homes, most of our days were spent on devices; at that point everything felt virtual. The visual aspect of the photo reminds me of the graphics from Chilla’s Art and Puppet Combo games have VHS inspired aesthetics. This photo has a strange aura to it due to the empty street devoid of people which reminds me of photos of liminal spaces.

So why is this photo appealing to others? As Dwell Time Press authors Ethel and Mavis described it, it was refreshing to see photos of lock-down that weren’t just pictures of an empty city or street. Pippa Healy transformed these ordinary and uninteresting photos of her walk and gave the photos a narrative; from the walks to the device that she used to take and edit these pictures, they all came together to tell a story.

References:

Ethel, Mavis. (2022, January 19). I want it all to go back to the way it was before by Pippa Healy. Dwell Time Press. Retrieved January 28, 2024, from https://dwelltimepress.wordpress.com/2022/01/19/i-want-it-all-to-go-back-to-the-way-it-was-before-by-pippa-healy/

Healy, P. (2022, February) I want it all to go back to the way it was before [Photograph]. Photomonitor. Retrieved January 28, 2024, from https://photomonitor.co.uk/portfolio/i-want-it-all-to-go-back-to-the-way-it-was-before/

Healy, P. (2022, February) I want it all to go back to the way it was before. Photomonitor. Retrieved January 28, 2024, from https://photomonitor.co.uk/portfolio/i-want-it-all-to-go-back-to-the-way-it-was-before/

Scott, G (Host). (2023, October 5). Podcast: A photographic life, episode 262: Plus photographer Pippa Healy. [Audio podcast episode]. What does photography mean to you? United Nations of Photography. Retrieved January 27, 2024 from https://unitednationsofphotography.com/2023/05/10/podcast-a-photographic-life-episode-plus-photographer-pippa-healy/

She wants it all to go back to the way it was before (2022, September 15). Niu Nina. Retrieved January 28, 2024, from https://www.ninunina.com/home/2022/9/14/she-wants-it-all-to-go-back-to-the-way-it-was-before?rq=pippa

[michael-laptev]

someone has been hoarding diligently

[arjunasunyam]

see you in your sweaty fever dreams you sick freaks

[from the Great Quarantine. that time i had the covid]

[cleocatrablossy]

Due to jokes with my friends I have attempted to recreate Basil’s hair clip by clipping one clip onto another.

[eggsyloxley]

Quarantine Days - February 2022 ll

[sosa444prez]

our first apartment! she was small and kinda of turned into a padded room by the end of our two years there but she will always mean a lot to me. so much love and food and stories shared in those rooms. these were taken in winter 2020-21 when we were deep in quarantine and it was cloudy every day and things were really hard psychologically for all 5 of us. but we made it! smoked a lot of weed and crocheted a lot of beanies and watched so much svu and cried soooo much but we made it

[galaxy-ies]

[doctorlavender]

The Border of Hermes | Close to the Sun

[elaisaak]

Una batalla silenciosa qué da lugar a esa sensación de existir y no pertenecer en ningún lugar.

Creando recuerdos atemporales

Isaac Constantino