Bodies & Places

This past year, an unprecedented case of global pandemic has shaken and disrupted everyday life as it was once known. I conducted this project during those psychologically challenging times while trying to understand how identities and sense of place within urban spaces evolved and transformed under the effects of Covid-19. Situating ourselves within an environment riddled with rules and measures that temporarily impede our basic human rights pushed me to observe humans’ resilience and ability to adapt as well as its impacts on mental wellbeing. It also led me to reconsider notions of «normality». While some would apprehend a «new normal», I decided to consider the current worldwide situation as an exceptional and momentarily alternative reality. For this, I captured through my camera lens moving images in urban empty spaces to illustrate a sense of loss and the disruption of social and geographical markers this global situation has triggered and how it affected us. My work aims to reflects bodily movements and facial expressions as a means of expression of life in its purest form. Indeed, through my photographs, I intend to reinstate a sense of existence and belonging through fundamental depictions of life – physical movements thus appear under the form of « essence of life » in my works; while we move, we live, we exist, and life goes on. More on: https://blog287978551.wordpress.com/portfolio/