Our Social Distancing by Eszter Papp experiments with ways to create images amidst a pandemic. Eszter is a Hungarian photographer and Far Features producer, who figured out a way to connect with people around the world and shoot them via live webcam. She manipulated the images through layers and colours echoing a sense of distorted reality the viewer and the subject have formed under isolation. Using this new way of making images, Eszter was able to make portraits of subjects in Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Italy, New Zealand, Pakistan, Singapore, Thailand, UK and USA.
During the pandemic, everyone has had to adapt to a new normal. As media production professionals, we asked ourselves how can we turn our inability to travel into an advantage for the sustainability and conservation movements? Enter Zero Carbon Portraits — a new media project created by professional documentary photographer Eszter Papp. Since the start of the pandemic, the Hungarian has been experimenting with new modes of portraiture photography via live web-cam video calls with subjects around the world. Her series Our Social Distancing has already received media attention for its creative use of non-travel and innovative use of socially-distanced art direction, costume, clever location scouting, collaborative photo documentation methods and use of in-lens filtering and distortions. Now, she is adapting her methods to help the sustainability and conservation movements with this new project Zero Carbon Portraits.
With no travel needed, Eszter is proving that technology can enable sustainable art to also thrive. She is “travelling the world” to take portraits vicariously via live video calls and still creating artistic visual images. With no travel needed, no carbon is used during the media production process. She has even calculated the carbon calculation of her equipment, and offset this via carbon offsets.
Project Date
August 2020-October 2020
Book release TBC
Photo Exhibitions TBC
Photographer/Producer: Eszter Papp
Writer: Fraser Morton
Designer: Ali Kelly
Produced by: Far Features Ltd
A new photographic project is proving ‘new normal art’ can adapt to lockdown limitations imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic — and help the environmental movement. Zero Carbon Portraits is a sustainable art project for the sustainability movement in 2020.
Read MoreThe Man And The Machine exhibition has selected images from Far Features’ Eszter Papp to be exhibited at the Millepiani gallery in Rome November 10-18. Images were selected from 1,478 submitted entries for the exhibition.
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