For my photos responding to the virus, I decided to go to my local grocery store and photograph. I’ve had a lot of problems with my camera during this whole process, including waiting for my packaged up camera to get to me in Oregon, and then realizing that my roommate grabbed the wrong battery charger, and my camera was dead when it got here… SO yeah. Lots of unfortunate things on top of another considering I’ve been itching to leave my house and photograph. I wanted to get this project done because I’m already behind on the due date, so I had to take the photos with my phone, which was alright. I told my mom that having to photograph on a phone is like giving a painter a set of Crayola water colors, but it’ll have to do for now. I hid my phone in the sleeve of my sweatshirt and used the side buttons to take the photos, which was kind of fun. I edited them to purposely be more underexposed than usual to give that eerie effect that everyone had been talking about for this series. Going into the shoot I thought a lot about what I could do to make these photos relate to everything that is going on now. Because, yes, I could take a picture of a street that’s usually busy, but anyone could look at that in 10 years and not correlate it to the Coronavirus. Once I find somewhere that is selling extra camera batteries, I have another shoot planned that I’m really excited for. I’ll probably post them on here once it happens, just because I’ve been so frustrated with just wanting to shoot photos on my camera SO BAD, and damn it I WILL!!
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