Taking extra precaution, I disinfect all these goods with alcohol or wash them with soap. To avoid going out we started ordering food and do shopping online. The idea for the seventh photograph also came from the changes brought about b圜OVID-19. My inner self also told me that the two images shared the same theme as they both were about “a new birth”. The paw’s gesture was similar of the model’s hand. But, eventually I became more interested in the posture of the model as I saw among my collection of souvenirs and old toys a small, newly hatched, dinosaur.
For the fifth photograph entitled “A New Baby is Born” initially I was thinking of matching the photograph of a model launching a new car with that of the car toys I found in the cabinet. Soon or later an association with a past image will emerge in my mind and I will look for the photo in question in my archive.īefore the pandemic, I used to photograph events to launch and sell cars and motors. To trigger them, I spend time –plenty of time during lock-down!- to observe the objects in our home. A lot of the ideas for the diptych happen spontaneously. The assignment shots are in line with my specialization as a photographer and they are about travel, sport, portrait and documentary. Starting from the fifth photograph, I match photographs of past assignments with new photographs to realize the diptych effect.
DIPTIC PHOTOGRAPHY PROFESSIONAL
During COVID-19, I cook more than my wife and so I have become very familiar with this daily household routine in substitution of my professional outdoor routine. For the photographs, editing is the final act, and so is washing dishes at the end of every meal. I consider the computer work and the washing of dishes as being both post-production activities. The fourth photograph does not show much similarities in form, but they do connect at a deeper level. Besides some similarity in their form, they also have the same function of emitting something, for the flash it is light and for the shower handle it is water. Next, I explore the similarity of the flash lamp and the shower handle. For the second photograph, I associate the movement I make to hold the lens to the movement of holding the water boiler. For the first picture, I realized that the way I use my hands to hold the camera is similar to the way I am using them to open and close the sanitizer bottle in these COVID-19 times. I use new photographs to create these associations. At home, I try to find objects, activities and movements that I can relate to my work and work equipment, but they represent the household setting, the transition from working outside to ‘staying at home’. The first four photographs focus on associations related to work objects that I usually use as photographer like the camera, lens and flash. To create a diptych, I put together two photographs that are different in terms of objects, but that in my view have some similarities or share the form, function, nature or message they convey. A diptych is a singular artwork made out of two pieces or panels presented together.
DIPTIC PHOTOGRAPHY SERIES
“At Work vs At Home” consists of a series of diptychs.
This visual storytelling essay is a project I started during lockdown in Jakarta. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced me to stay at home and to find ways of occupying and entertaining myself. I do not have a studio as I my work is mostly outside.
I am a photographer and I take editorial portrait, documentary, travel and commercial shots. “At Work Vs At Home”: Diptych Photography at the Time of COVID-19 Photo essay for the Special Initiative “ From Fear to Resilience: Visual Storytelling of COVID-19 in Southeast Asia ” by SEA Junction and Partners Title:
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