Remote Shoot: Hi-Tech Meets Lo-Tech by David Aimone

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Remote Shoot: Hi-Tech Meets Lo-Tech

Copyright David Aimone 2024

Updated Mar 2021

Topics Beauty, Documentary, Epidemics, Feminism, Fine Art, Gender, Isolation, Multimedia, Nude, Photography, Portraiture, Sexuality, Technology, Womens Rights

When COVID settled into our lives, it changed our routines, habits and workflows in many ways. As a photographer who shoots landscapes, it wasn't a huge deal, except for the difficulties in traveling longer distances. As a figure/portrait photographer, however, the ramifications were huge and intimidating. How do you work with other human beings in a close and intimate setting for extended periods of time, and certainly the subject of the photograph is not likely to support the concept of wearing a face mask.
But for the traveling art model, the consequences are much higher and the situation much more difficult. They make their living from not only shooting in close quarters with photographers and posing for painters, but they travel far and wide to do so. Initially, when everyone thought that COVID would (hopefully) be a short-term thing, model shoots just stopped for the most part. When the light at the end of the COVID tunnel kept receding further and further into the future, people began to get creative.

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