Fernanda Rocha

Photographer & Visual Storyteller
     
Visual Diary of a Quarantine
Location: Ferrara (Italy)
Nationality: Argentinian
Biography: Fernanda Rocha is an independent photographer originally from Argentina and currently based in Italy. She has a degree in Social Communication from Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina) and she has attended various courses and... MORE
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Visual Diary of a Quarantine
Copyright Fernanda Rocha 2024
Date of Work Mar 2020 - Jul 2020
Updated Jan 2021
Location Ferrara, Italy
Topics Covid19 Quarantine Selfisolation, Documentary, Essays, Isolation, Pandemics, Photography, Photojournalism, Relationships
This is a serie of photos documenting my days during the extraordinary period lived around the world, as a consequence of the pandemic caused by Covid-19.
I was in my first year of life in Italy, when the disease started to hit the country badly. It was the first place, after China, suffering this unknown and strange situation while the rest of the world looked with fear. "¨From the beginning of the confinement, I felt pulled to use my camera, this time to document what was my little safe world, my everyday life in a countryside area in the center of the Italian Peninsula. I started as a way of understanding that we were going through a situation without precedent, an historical period, it was something not only happening to me, it was the entire world going through the same, and we are still …
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