Home Alone Part 3 Shadows

This is another photographic essay capturing the images around me and expressing the loneliness these images express during this period of COVID-19 pandemic.   It is a world of light and shadows.

Photography is my means of seeing and dealing with this world that seems to be comprised of light and shadows.  During this time of voluntary isolation from the virus, I find my self in a Yin and Yang situation, trying to balance my isolation in this constant conflict.

The morning begins with slivers of light creeping on to the walls from the world outside.  It is a world I seem to find myself separated from.   I have become increasing aware of this dance of light and shadows and I try to capture each of their movements.  The shadows appear to fracture the objects around me as the light becomes more intense. 

It has become an obsession of creative ways to photographically visualize the various shadows that have invaded my environment.   And, in doing so, I have become acutely aware of me.  Photography, therefore, has become my visual poetry of this penetrating darkness that seems to be the normality right now.

Car Jung said, “Everyone carries a shadow”

All images made with Sony A7II camera with morning window light.  I can be reached for questions or comments at nymacc@gmail.com

The Light and Shadows of Lockdown

There is a certain feeling of darkness coupled with loneliness during this period of COVID-19, but there is also a light spilling through this gloom.   This again is a photo essay compiled with images that express feelings of isolation.

If this period of self-isolation has taught me anything as a photographer, it is how the small things around me can be visible definitions, or glimpses into this isolation.  The invisible has become visible.  The light and shadows around me have helped give visual reality to these feelings of bleakness that my camera helps me record.

The light streaming through the windows is a dance between light and darkness.  As the light moves from surface to surface, shapes become defined.   These shapes are small parts of my existence.  My senses have become acute to the various items I see or maybe don’t see.  And, as I photograph these items that seem to hide in the shadows, it has strengthened my  ability to see and feel this light and shadows.  There is certain aesthetics in the shadows because they define the light and that which it falls upon.  The question of course arises, what more is hidden in the shadows?  It is therefore, this creative process that makes my isolation palatable.

The images for this blog were shot using a Sony Alpha7II camera…during morning hours when the light is coming through the windows from the east and at it’s strongest.  If you like this blog and want to reach me, I can be reached at nymacc@gmail.com