Alec Jacobson

Photographer, Writer
    
A Musical Offing for Early Music Vancouver
Location: Burlington, Vermont, USA
Nationality: American
Biography: Alec Jacobson is a photographer and writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia, who likes to dive deep into slow-moving stories.  Drawing on his studies in Anthropology, French and Arabic at Amherst College, he prefers to be the only... MORE
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A Musical Offing for Early Music Vancouver
Copyright Alec Jacobson 2024
Date of Work Apr 2020 - May 2020
Updated May 2020
Location Vancouver, BC
Topics Advertising, Corona, Coronavirus, COVID, Covid-19, Documentary, Editorial, Health/Healing, NGO, Photography, Photojournalism, Portraiture
When Vancouver started to shut down at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, I watched a lot of work on my calendar evaporate.  I started calling other creatives in town to get sense of how they were being impacted.  When Matt White at Early Music Vancouver picked up, he talked about how they had to cancel their 50th anniversary season but that they might also have the chance to commission some new work to support freelance musicians in the Early Music family.  From that conversation, a project evolved to make portraits of musicians in social isolation and offer them up along with new recordings of music and written reflections by each musician. I’m so excited to see these start to come out and so grateful to Early Music for taking on this project that has supported and inspired me and many others in these wild times.

I followed Gabriel Galimberti's lead, sterilizing lights and instructing subjects on how to place them in their homes to keep everyone at a safe distance.

After I made a portrait of each musician, they recorded themselves playing and then sent in a reflection, and all three pieces were then tied together,
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