The coronavirus, or COVID-19, was recognized as a global pandemic on March 11th, 2020. Four days later, France closed schools as well as all non-essential businesses, bars, and restaurants to encourage self-isolation and fight the growing outbreak numbers. Two days later, France issued mandatory quarantine.
As a current student living in Paris, my world has been turned upside down by the coronavirus. My school has switched to online classes, I cannot leave my 32m2 apartment, and I am in a foreign country far away from my family during these troubling times. To cope with these uncontrollable events and emotions, I picked up my camera and started to document. I used myself and my partner, Amrand Dubois, as the subject in the images. Sometimes I would direct and stage an image, while other times I would simply take a snap shot photo of a passing moment. At the end of each day, I wrote a small journal entry about either what happened that day or how we were feeling. Then I would talk with Armand and we would come up with three keywords that summarized our day. This documentary series evolved in the Quarantine Diaries, a photo book that contains an image form each day of our quaranitne paired with the corresponding journal entry from that day. The text in the book is all handwritten in my handwriting to give it a sense of authenticity as well as vulnerability.
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