Judith Parrott

Photographer
   
My Corona
Location: Scotland
Nationality: UK / Australia
Biography: I work as a photographer, sound artist and writer and have 18 years professional experience exploring cultural identity and the relevance of belonging for personal and environmental wellbeing. To this end I have held residencies in Canada,... MORE
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My Corona
Copyright Judith Parrott 2024
Date of Work Apr 2020 - Ongoing
Updated Dec 2020
Location scotland
Topics Arts, Corona virus, Covid-19, Emotion, Environment, Epidemics, Fine Art, Health, Health/Healing, Hope, Isolation, Joy, Loss, Pandemic, Pandemics, Photography, Portraiture
Over the last eighteen years I have spent much time in wilderness areas, and meeting with fascinating people in interesting places, collaborating with them to take their photographic portraits. My photographic series have always centred on the stories of the people I meet. Under the isolation of COVID-19 I turned the camera on myself in response to life under lockdown in Scotland.

This new series challenges my usual social documentary approach. I no longer “take” photographs but create fantasies that come from within myself, constructed to tell a story. Using post-processing techniques, the images become an alternate reality, a temporary escape from the real world.
Using the limitations of the home as my inspiration, the exhibition creates a playful but serious, personal perspective on our shared experience.

The work explores the benefits of the natural environment for mental wellbeing, and continuing to interact with the outdoors became for me an important part of managing lockdown. In the series I also examined the Yin and Yang of remoteness and connection. While we might sometimes take for granted our habitual access to friends and community, once juxtaposed both remoteness and connection become more powerful. Without one the other has little meaning.
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