Bénédicte Desrus

Documentary Photographer + Photojournalist
     
When I grow up
Location: Mérida, Mexico
Nationality: French
Biography: Bénédicte Desrus is a French documentary photographer based in  Mérida, Mexico. She is represented by  Sipa Press agency USA  and has worked throughout Europe, East Africa and the Americas. She... MORE
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When I grow up
Copyright Bénédicte Desrus 2023
Date of Work Mar 2020 - Ongoing
Updated Mar 2021
Location Mexico
Topics Childhood, Children, Confinement, Documentary, Education, Emotion, Essays, Family, Friends + Family, Globalization, Homeschooling, Interior, Isolation, Latin America, Lockdown, Mexico, Parenting & Family, Photography, Photojournalism, Portraiture, Quarantine, Spotlight

When I Grow up



For one year, I photographed my 4-year-old son Thiago, as part of a project titled “When I grow up” about a child growing up in isolation, away from other children and the outside world, during the coronavirus pandemic.




"With this pandemic and his school closed, my son is experiencing big changes. He has barely seen another child for months now. I wonder what the psychological effects of social distancing will have on him during his formative years and how he will remember this time in the future.”



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