Confinement creativity
During these times of confinement, I’ve seen the inside of more friends’ and colleagues’ homes than ever before. It feels like more photographs are bring taken than ever before: every plate of food, unmade bed, loo roll, bored child, pet, plane trail, cloud, shaft of light and corner of a room is being documented. In these quiet times, creativity has exploded. Photography is going to be a crucial reminder of this once-in-a-generation event. When it’s all over, people will ask: ‘What did YOU do?’ I went on the hunt for inspiration for projects to do and being done.
1. Look Out
Artist-photographer Jasper White has built a reputation looking inside and outside from inside. His work inspects the relationship between people and territory and how boundaries are defined within space. His project, Tour Eiffel, shows how one of the world’s greatest follies is viewed from the apartments of Paris residents. In his series, Landscapes, the framed pictures become a window of somewhere you would rather be. White has photographed guns in bedrooms, brothel beds, inside tents, the men’s side of the bed and for his book, , Australian men’s sheds. His work is beautiful, bright and clinical, an effect achieved with one
