Elizabeth Montana Myers
by Elizabeth Montana Myers from San Francisco, CA
On March 17th I left all my belongings in Brooklyn and flew back home to California to quarantine with my sister and her boyfriend. When I arrived, it was clear they were breaking up. After a month of fighting, making up and fighting all over again, my sister decided to pack up her car and stay indefinitely at a friend's place.
In the meantime, I stayed at our family’s home with her boyfriend.
Six awkward, unpleasant, pandemic weeks later her ex moved out and my sister moved back in. Drawing from this reservoir of emotion, for the following four months I began to document my sister’s heartbreak. At age 33, it was her first.
The selected image was taken during one of many Saturday nights spent at home, in which she regularly performed rituals of self-care.
SELF-PORTRAITS: PHOTOGRAPHERS IN CONFINEMENT
Curated by Svetlana Bachevanova (USA/France)
A collection of self-portraits made by photojournalists from five continents during the unprecedent lockdown due to the corona virus pandemic.
Photographers are people on the road, living to document the lives of others.
Constrained by the lockdown, many of them had their first experience of being still long enough to begin seeing and understanding small details about who they are, their lifestyles and values, that were overshadowed while they were busy. These self-portraits express their experience.
This is a unique collection of self-portraits from some of the best lenses in photojournalism at an historic moment.
Photographers in Confinement is a project in process and I welcome additional submissions from photojournalists at svetlana@fotoevidence.com
I am looking for potential exhibition partners in the USA and abroad.
Svetlana Bachevanova is a founder and publisher of FotoEvidence, long time photojournalist and curator.
