This set of images were created as a way to continue… Grief was one of the biggest emotions I had to come to terms with during the initial Covid 19 lockdown period. Each photograph was hard to create, and while it did get me making again, it all fel

This set of images were created as a way to continue… Grief was one of the biggest emotions I had to come to terms with during the initial Covid 19 lockdown period. Each photograph was hard to create, and while it did get me making again, it all felt quite liminal. As a photographer that uses myself within my images often, this felt different, and othering.

On reflection, I can’t remember what that time felt like. I don’t want to go back to those emotions, but I do realise I’m heavier now.

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 This set of images were created as a way to continue… Grief was one of the biggest emotions I had to come to terms with during the initial Covid 19 lockdown period. Each photograph was hard to create, and while it did get me making again, it all fel
PJohnson_SelfPortraitinISO_2.jpg
PJohnson_SelfPortraitinISO_3.jpg
PJohnson_SelfPortraitinISO_4.jpg
9_PJ2_8251_lower.jpg
PJohnson_SelfPortraitinISO_6.jpg
PJohnson_SelfPortraitinISO_7.jpg
PJ2_9732_lower.jpg
PJohnson_SelfPortraitinISO_8.jpg
PJohnson_SelfPortraitinISO_9.jpg

This set of images were created as a way to continue… Grief was one of the biggest emotions I had to come to terms with during the initial Covid 19 lockdown period. Each photograph was hard to create, and while it did get me making again, it all felt quite liminal. As a photographer that uses myself within my images often, this felt different, and othering.

On reflection, I can’t remember what that time felt like. I don’t want to go back to those emotions, but I do realise I’m heavier now.

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