TITLE: Lockdown Portraits

I took this series in our street in central Toulouse (France) during the first lockdown in April and May 2020. Neighbours, friends and passers-by from the area posed with symbols of their favorite lockdown preoccupations in front of a make-shift white screen set up outside three times per week. The portraits show the joy of having a short moment of coming together mixed with the distress people were feeling when they first realized that their world was about to change thoroughly in spring 2020. The photos witness this change of paradigm in their lives and simple facts, e.g. that we didn’t have any masks then.
The series is an hommage to the German photographer, Stefan Moses, who travelled throughout Germany in the 1950s with a tissue screen portraying post-war professional Germans.

AUTHOR: dorothee lebrun (France)