Post by Stammerhead on Apr 15, 2020 15:59:24 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-52284371
As the lockdown started to take hold, photographer Fran Monks, like many freelancers, found her paid commissions were being postponed. But she really wanted to document this extraordinary time where so many are isolated at home and so set about using her skills as a portrait photographer.
Monks began by photographing her subjects over the internet, initially with them quite close to their devices, but slowly began to realise it was much more interesting to include more of the environment in the picture.
"I have to collaborate with people, asking them to position their laptop or tablet on the other side of the room while I direct them from a far," she says. "It is a really fun way to work, although bandwidth, webcams and light all present big challenges”.
“I decided that I would make the final image by photographing the screen, because I like the strange artefacts which appear. Even though the images are made by layer upon layer of digital process, I enjoy the fact that the black border of the computer screen is somewhat reminiscent of a darkroom print from a negative”.
As the lockdown started to take hold, photographer Fran Monks, like many freelancers, found her paid commissions were being postponed. But she really wanted to document this extraordinary time where so many are isolated at home and so set about using her skills as a portrait photographer.
Monks began by photographing her subjects over the internet, initially with them quite close to their devices, but slowly began to realise it was much more interesting to include more of the environment in the picture.
"I have to collaborate with people, asking them to position their laptop or tablet on the other side of the room while I direct them from a far," she says. "It is a really fun way to work, although bandwidth, webcams and light all present big challenges”.
“I decided that I would make the final image by photographing the screen, because I like the strange artefacts which appear. Even though the images are made by layer upon layer of digital process, I enjoy the fact that the black border of the computer screen is somewhat reminiscent of a darkroom print from a negative”.
I did give a speech at a conference a few days ago and that was held virtually, but its not something you would get to do a few times a week plus moving from in person to remote is a downgrade for the participants so to extract some monetary value from that is also getting difficult. 
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