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Italian photographer Danilo D'Auria has created a humorous series of self-portraits that seeks to capture the "solidarity, fear, and sometimes even madness" that he's seen from his follow Italians as they've all been forced to stay indoors.

The photo series is called Io Resto a Casa (Translated: I Stay Home) and it takes a humorous swing at documenting "this dark and dramatic period of our history."

"I decided to take these series of shots to make fun of the expression of the average personality of some people in Italy right now," says D'Auria. "People who, while finding themselves locked up at home, being bored, feeling lonely, scared or simply in the hopes of getting some attention, unleasheded themselves in a series of activities that aroused my curiosity."

You can get a peek behind the scenes in the video below:

All of the portraits were taken at home, using only the gear and props he had at hand.

Each portrait was shot with a Canon 5D Mark IV and either a 16-35mm f/2.8 or 50mm f/1.4 lens. For lighting, he used 3 speedlights, a softbox, and two reflective umbrellas. And since Danilo doesn't have anyone there to help him, each photo is taken using the self-timer.

Scroll down to see some of our favorites from the series-15 "types" of people in quarantine that D'Auria has seen on display through social media during lockdown:

To see all of Io Resto a Casa, head over to D'Auria's website. And if you want to see more of his work, check out his portfolio or give him a follow on Instagram and Facebook.
Image credits: Photos by Danilo D'Auria and used with permission.

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Humorous Self-Portraits Capture the Different 'Types' of People in Quarantine

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Italian photographer Danilo D'Auria has created a humorous series of self-portraits that seeks to capture the "solidarity, fear, and sometimes even madness" that he's seen from his follow Italians as they've all been forced to stay indoors.

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HBO's teen TV show Euphoria is famous for its glittering neon colour palette

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Cyberpunk aesthetic is described as 'high tech. low life'

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The 90s was all about neon

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Climate crisis, racial violence

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90s revival

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Gucci's new advertising campaign for the Fall/Winter 2020 season explores the idea of looking at things from a different point of view. Titled "The Ritual," the images capture the daily lives of Gucci models in the comfort of their own homes. Recorded by the models themselves, the intimate images and video clips reflect an eclectic cast of characters, providing a deeply personal, honest and candid series of self-portraits.

The Gucci models are shown knitting, gardening, cleaning, jumping off a bed or skateboarding indoors. These hyper-real images show inhabitants who are free to have fun and experiment using their imagination, becoming their own photographers, storytellers, producers and scenographers. The playful campaign film, which evokes a strong sense of freedom and joy, is set to the song "Alright" by Supergrass. Although the images were captured on an array of tools, ranging from disposable cameras to camera phones, the entire visual experiment exudes an emotional dreamlike quality.

"I decided to let the clothes travel towards the houses of the cast of models - the characters that have embodied my stories for years; individuals I chose precisely, over time, for their uniqueness that usually brings my campaigns to life," Creative Director Alessandro Michele explained. "I asked them to represent the idea they have of themselves, to go public with it, shaping the poetry that accompanies them. I encouraged them to play, improvising with their life."

Take a closer look at the Fall/Winter 2020 campaign in the slideshow above and check out the campaign film below.

In other news, Les Basics presents a fresh perspective for its Spring/Summer 2021 lookbook.

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Gucci's FW20 Campaign Offers a Candid Look Into Models' Lives

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90s revival and cyberpunk

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COVID-19 pandemic

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COVID-19 pandemic & burnout from hustle culture

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Daniel Jackont with Sean Levy for Ones 2 Watch

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Daniel Jackont with Sean Levy for Ones 2 Watch

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When I arrived at the KidSuper studio the first week of August, Colm Dillane, the streetwear label's founder, answered the door wearing slides, ankle-cut Puma socks, a T-shirt and long basketball shorts. His curly hair was splayed across his head like he'd just woken up. Dozens of cardboard boxes and racks lined the walls. And a few altered Barbie dolls dressed in KidSuper couture were tucked into the corner of the room. Colm says he's experimenting with a few mediums outside of clothing - videos, claymation, painting - and his workspace is a testament to this. Whenever you ask Colm what he's been up to, he always lists something new.

The Brooklyn-based creative was in high school when he first conceptualised KidSuper. Ten years later, the label has become a cult-favourite amongst New York City creatives. He's lauded for his playful take on streetwear with references to folk art, soccer motifs and vibrant graphics. KidSuper's upcoming collaboration with Puma, the first major partnership for the burgeoning brand, features a full range of colourful footwear and clothing riddled with Colm's signature doodles. It all came together spontaneously, like much of his work.

When fashion week went digital last month, forcing designers to find new ways to present their work in a COVID-19 world, Colm reimagined over 20 Barbie Dolls as his dream models. Travis Scott, Andy Warhol and Bernie Sanders walked the virtual runway as Queen Elizabeth and the Obamas looked on from the front row. Colm's fantastical approach showcased his eclectic designs and what seems to be his mantra - you don't always have to take yourself so seriously.

More than the clothes though, KidSuper succeeds because of the people he surrounds himself with and the community the brand is helping to build. The physical studio has acted as a creative incubator of all sorts over the past few years. Lolo Zouai and Russ are just a couple of the artists that have spent stints living in the KidSuper space as they were starting out.

As Colm and I speak, Ak The Savior from the hip-hop duo The Underachievers pops by the studio. He and his rap partner Issa Gold were among the first to support the KidSuper brand years ago, sporting the looks onstage and in music videos. They helped introduce the label to fellow New York artists from A$AP Mob to Pro Era. Now, everyone from Young Thug to DaBaby can be seen sporting his clothes.

As Ak explains how he met Colm, the Brooklyn-based producer from Pro Era, Chuck Strangers, walks through the door. Colm and Chuck hadn't seen each other in eight years but embraced like old friends. Meanwhile, rapper Kenneth Cash was trying on KidSuper fits for his upcoming music video. It's all a day in the life of KidSuper.

So, how did KidSuper evolve from a hobby into a brand?
Colm Dillane: Since I was from New York, so many people had a brand. [Everyone] had always been like, 'Let's start a brand.' Even in high school, there were kids that had brands. And you heard of Mishka and Supreme and 10 Deep and all these streetwear brands. That was actually the saving grace for me as a creative. The ability to brand everything. I would do an art piece and it would be branded. I would do a video, gallery, branded.

I think I'm the next generation or two generations after a lot of those brands. I'm still at that age where my personal style is the same as...

[Ak The Savior walks in]. That's one of the first people to ever support me. Ak from The Underachievers.

How did you guys initially meet?
Ak: When we came out as The Underachievers, we were super spiritual, psychedelic people - still are. [Colm] was really connected with that. He used symbols that we were fucking with in our videos [like] Hanuman, a spiritual deity.

CD: This is hilarious. Big picture, I'm not even that spiritually aligned. My parents had moved since I was born. High school was the four years where I got to stay in one place, but before that I had moved literally every two to three years. My parents moved [to India] senior year of high school, but I was still in New York. I'm like, 'Mom, I'm doing all this clothing, can you send me some fabrics?' My mom sends me a box of these Indian gods on T-shirts, and the graphics are beautiful.

Ak: When I first seen that shit, I was like, 'Man this is perfect.' It was a black shirt with the Hanuman across.

CD: Then, at that exact time, [The Underachievers] were just starting, too. How did you guys get into that?

Ak: Issa put me on. I was always a spiritual person, so I was always into Buddhism and shit like that. Positive energy. I was reading books. We started watching Spirit Science and that's where we some of our knowledge. That was exactly the time I met you.

Colm: I had these [T-shirts] and it was kind of magical because I didn't plan to do this, they didn't plan for me to do this.

Ak: Organic shit.

What did you think about the KidSuper label when you first saw it? What drew you to it?
Ak: I thought it was dope. The whole style was just new. His art is really what made me, like, 'Oh shit these guys are hard-working artists with talent trying to come up.' The concept of KidSuper was dope, too. That's kind of our message that we send-just be the best version of yourself.

It seems like all the Beast Coast guys fuck with KidSuper.
CD: [The Underachievers] introduced me to everyone. Once they started wearing it, it was like Flatbush Zombies, then it was Joey and Pro Era. That was huge for me to tap into because it was a New York City brand. You could go different routes. This was me getting authentically New York people to rep it. I can't stress enough how big that was for me. The underground scene wearing the underground [labels]. That was huge. You might not have sold a billion shirts, but all the cool people were wearing it. It's also cool to see everyone leveling up. From cutting T-shirts and sewing them myself to a Paris fashion show and he's walking it. And he's the first person to ever wear it, it's a beautiful circle.

Ak: Shit is happening, and when I look back at it, it's like, wow I really did that shit.

CD: That was what I always wanted to create with this KidSuper space. Like, why isn't there a place for creative people to meet? Even for me. So I was like, I'm going to make this physical space, that'll bring in these types of people. That was the goal more than having the most poppin' brand in the world. I'm not a Fashion fashion dude. People are out here watching Margiela and crying. I don't treat this [KidSuper] fashion stuff as Fashion. I see it as more of a creative project. How can I be the most creative within these fashion rules?

How did the KidSuper x Puma collab end up happening? What was the process like?
CD: Puma sent a deal option. It was like ten shoes, 50 types of clothing, global... this is huge. Puma historically is the most famous soccer brand. All the legends wore Puma. It was cool. I always feel a little bit like an underdog, so going for Puma feels like the underdogs are on top.

I was supposed to have two days of designing [in Germany]. I was like, 'This is gonna take us way longer, and we're gonna go back and send you stuff.' This is a huge opportunity for us, we wanted to take each moment.

Let's talk a bit about the stop motion show.
CD: Right when I heard [fashion week] was virtual I knew exactly what I was going to do. I had done like four to five claymations. I also was like, finally I get to be truly creative. Fashion shows are creative, but they're also like, how much money can you spend? For the stop motion, I felt like I could finally be creative and have a unique idea. I knew instantly I was going to do that. What I liked about it is that virtual, to me, allowed people to compete on a creative level rather than a budget level. These physical fashion shows, if you rent out a big palace, it doesn't really matter what the clothes look like. For this one, you can't rent out that palace. And if you spend a lot of money on your video, it could still be trash. A lot of people failed and a lot of people just didn't do it. It gave breath to the younger brands.

As you get more into fashion, like, capital F fashion, do you like it or hate it?
CD: I've still been able to be so myself within these constraints of fashion, and I think people are actually taking it as a breath of fresh air. It's been cool to see people's positive reactions. Not only am I new and unique, but the whole fashion world is changing, so I think my way is kind of gonna end up the way... You know what you get when you get KidSuper, and I think that's what's at the heart and soul of the brand.

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KidSuper's Colm Dillane is Brooklyn's most enigmatic streetwear designer

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When I arrived at the KidSuper studio the first week of August, Colm Dillane, the streetwear label's founder, answered the door wearing slides, ankle-cut Puma socks, a T-shirt and long basketball shorts. His curly hair was splayed across his head like he'd just woken up. Dozens of cardboard boxes and racks lined the walls.

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Daria Kobayashi Ritch with Jodie Tuner-Smith for Poter, September 2020

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Daria Kobayashi Ritch with Jodie Tuner-Smith for Poter, September 2020

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Sonia Szostak with Vilma Sjoberg and Tom Rey for Numero France, October 2020

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Sonia Szostak with Vilma Sjoberg and Tom Rey for Numero France, October 2020

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Edit: I highly regret taking this photo as I was naive to how real satanism is and some may believe this implies any correlation. I'm made of love and dark forces have no space in my heart. Leaving this photo here in case anyone sees this image online and comes back to my profile looking for an answer regarding this image which could be easily misinterpreted due to my ignorance. White skull or black? ⠀ The Masked Society: Often times we feel trapped within the personality we have evolved over the years and we do not know how to break out of that mould and allow a different version of us to come to life. All of us have unexpressed parts of ourselves that we might think or others might regard as 'so not you', therefore they're not shown and end up trapped and suffocated. This is painful and limiting. ⠀ People change over time and it's a relief to the soul to experience reality through a new way of existing. ⠀ ______________ ⠀ Black skull photo from 8 months ago, naturally when I saw the white skull at @joshuatreecabin I had to recreate. ⠀ ⠀ #AdvancedSelfie #SelfPortrait #PortraitPhotography #SelfPortraitPhotography

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summer from my backyard 🍃 (New @camilacoelhocollection pieces and SWIM just dropped - at revolve.com) Im trying all pieces on my stories! #summer @revolve --------- Verão no meu quintal🍃☺️ Hoje lançamos peças novas de @camilacoelhocollection (estou experimentando tudo no stories)!

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aesthetics 90s [Video] in 2020 | Badass aesthetic, Boujee aesthetic, Aesthetic indie

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Daniel Regan for Vans 'Design Assembly' Capsule

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As people seek out ways to unwind and look pretty while they're at it, #bathfluence has become a legitimate phenomenon. It has seen lifestyle content creators dispense advice on how to utilise bath trays, scented candles, fresh flowers and bath bombs to curate a me-time experience like none other.

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For the average home dweller, taking a bath used to be a private endeavor: fill a giant porcelain bowl with warm water, strip naked, submerge your corporeal form, rinse, repeat. The only people whose bath times were made public were babies, Liberace, and Hollywood starlets. (A favorite: Jayne Mansfield gabbing on her vintage telephone in her heart-shaped tub in her furry pink bathroom, in a 1960 issue of Life.) But, oh, how bath times have changed. In an era of wellness trends fuelled by social media, when everyone is practicing competitive self-care, the bathtub has become another theatre set, an opportunity to perform one's life style for all to see. Thanks to Instagram, and also to sites such as Into the Gloss and The Cut, which obsessively detail individual beauty regimens, I now know more than I ever thought possible about the bath-time habits of strangers.

For instance: Mariah Carey bathes in cold milk. Gwenyth Paltrow likes to wind down every evening in a bath of magnesium salts. Lin-Manuel Miranda bathes for exactly fifteen minutes, with a timer set to alert him when to get out. Eva Chen, the head of fashion partnerships for Instagram, renovated her bathroom so that her tub would be nearly a part of her bedroom. (Goodbye, open kitchen. Hello, open bathroom.) Emily Weiss, the C.E.O. of the makeup brand Glossier, takes a forty-five-minute bath almost every night, with scalding water and two full pounds of Epsom salts, the better to sweat-it's "a workout without moving." The model and influencer Summer Dawn Miller bathes in a crumbling old tub in her East Village apartment-and douses herself with a full bottle of hydrogen peroxide as she soaks. She shared this regimen as part of a recent "bath content" campaign with the pricey personal-care brand Necessaire. After people on Twitter began to question the health benefits of marinating in a disinfectant soup, the tip promptly disappeared from the beauty Web site that published it. (A representative from the site, Violet Grey, told me that it "takes a voyeuristic view of a subject's beauty routine" but does "not endorse or guarantee" it.)

Peroxide or no peroxide, in the new bathing landscape, plain old Mr. Bubble no longer cuts it. As with most "wellness" trends, capitalism has rushed in to fill a gaping need that wasn't there before. There are GOOP soaks for thirty-five dollars a bag and holi bath (mostly coconut milk) for fifty-eight dollars. There is Dream Bath Elixir and Moonenergy bath teas, and, courtesy of the cult-popular hot-yoga studio Y7, a post-Vinyasa CBD soak. In October, Fur, a high-end brand that makes products for the pubic area, will release a thirty-four-dollar tin of "bath drops" that burst in hot water and are meant to soothe the nether regions. Bath bombs-the baseball-size chunks of baking soda, citric acid, food coloring, and fragrance-now come stuffed with pop rocks, glitter, and activated charcoal that turns the bathwater pitch black. If you're curious, you can watch dozens of videos of them dissolving on YouTube.

With the rise of public-facing bath time comes the rise of bathfluencers. Deborah Hanekamp, a thirty-six-year-old based in Brooklyn, is one. Trained as a shaman in South America, Hanekamp now runs a series of exclusive Medicine Readings in SoHo, each of which ends with her prescribing a bathing recipe-for instance, a pink bath made out of Himalayan salt, rose petals, rosemary and rose oils, and a chunk of rose quartz dropped into the tub. On Instagram, she often provides her seventy-thousand-plus followers with photos of her own "ritual baths," which she shoots from above, before getting in, while standing on the edge of her tub. A forthcoming volume from William Morrow will collect her recipes, like a cookbook of soups for sitting in. "I like to make baths with açaí powder, and coconut milk, that creates this beautiful purplish water that makes the skin feel amazing," Hanekamp told me. "Once I put turmeric in the bath, and that took hours to clean off my skin." After her baths, she says, she likes to take the leftover pulp of ingredients outside and "offer them to a tree." Among her latest inventions: an aura-clearing bath for rescue dogs.

Who am I to judge? My adult bath time began in my mid-twenties, in a dingy tub in an apartment on the Lower East Side, and I quickly became hooked. Around midnight every evening, I would scrub the prewar porcelain with vinegar and lemon juice and baking soda until it sparkled (as much as prewar porcelain can) and I would marinate in the steamy water for an hour, reading a mass-market paperback by candlelight. I'd leave my phone in my room, afraid of ruining it with pruny fingers. It was an Esther Greenwood approach to bathing-a baptism for the secular, anxious adult. I would go in skittery and overwhelmed, and emerge pink and peaceful, leaving all the grime of the city to circle the drain.

I have now been taking nightly baths for more than a decade-when searching for my current apartment, a deep tub was a key requirement-but the ritual feels less solitary than it once did. I still read plenty in the tub, but just as often I bring my laptop into the bathroom and balance it precariously on the edge of the toilet; I've streamed countless TV shows while deep-conditioning. My phone is usually with me, too. I tweet from the bath, send e-mails, and edit Google Docs, including a draft of this piece. (For calls, I even bought a pink plug-in handset, but it's grown obsolete: iPhones are now waterproof, as are the new Amazon Kindles.) The tub has become a social space, an entertainment center, a wetter WeWork. Take enough baths and accrue enough social-media followers and you might find that you're a bathfluencer, too. On Twitter, I've shared my entire tub routine, including my penchant for bath snacks (clementines, popsicles, smoothies) and, as an occasional splurge, Chanel bubble bath. On Instagram, I've posted various iterations of the standard bath-time selfie: bare feet poking out from the bubbles, resting on the silver tap.

Hanekamp, the ritual-bath guru, told me that she thinks baths have taken off in recent years because there's a low barrier to entry: almost everyone has a tub. "A lot of what is out there in the wellness world can feel inaccessible," she said. "A bath doesn't feel too far out." Baths are simple, but, in my experience, their effects can be profound. No matter if you bathe au natural or turn your water into a bouillabaisse, unplug or don't, what makes a bath worthwhile are the small efforts that go into it. Let the water run, adjust the temperature, babysit the level. Move gracefully, with care, on the way in and out, lest you slip and break a bone. We are constantly bathed in content, steeping in the lives of others. But a person in the tub is someone who has slowed down long enough to stew for a few minutes with themselves.

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For the average home dweller, taking a bath used to be a private endeavor: fill a giant porcelain bowl with warm water, strip naked, submerge your corporeal form, rinse, repeat. The only people whose bath times were made public were babies, Liberace, and Hollywood starlets.

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Shadows are an easy way to add drama and intrigue to an image.
The rise of low-key photography has rekindled an interest in playing with shadows, and photographers are using them to mould a new kind of symbolism.

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Young creators are taking things into their own hands and shaping the face of this 90s revival

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Models are also styling themselves, and are their own MUAs

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Sobhita Dhulipala defends herself in 'self-timed' photoshoot controversy - Times of India

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Actress Sobhita Dhulipala, who has been accused of making false claims of 'self-timing' a magazine photoshoot, has issued a statement in self-defence.

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Borrowing from the current obsession with everything retro, film filters have become quite the rage. This VHS inspired aesthetic is achieved using analog cameras or post-production magic.

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Four years after the discovery of Laocoön, another art-historical convention emerged. In 1510, the Renaissance painter

(perhaps with a little help from his pupil

) painted the first reclining female nude. Following the pudica pose, Giorgione's Sleeping Venus (1508-10) covers her sex with one hand while sleeping atop some drapery in a picturesque landscape. The erotic display, designed to please its male viewers, was only admissible because it featured a goddess, rather than a "real" woman.

During the 18th century, colonial expansion exposed artists to Eastern cultures-and many painters became fixated on the subject of the Ottoman harem. Instead of depicting Venus, artists like

and

began to paint the odalisque (or harem chambermaid) in a similarly suggestive, reclining pose. Though she wasn't a goddess, the odalisque was still considered "other" enough to sexualize the figure without reproach.

With , Manet became the first known artist to place a modern white woman in this pose-and shocked audiences. Olympia doesn't lie passively with her eyes closed, but rather looks directly at viewers, confronting their gaze.

And though the painting was revolutionary, Olympia also added to the long list of artworks by male artists featuring nude women in this pose. In 1989, the

famously drew attention to this trend by creating a poster of an odalisque with the provocation: "Do women have to be naked to get into the Met Museum?"

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A return to maximalism is instrumental to the flourishing of this trend. Neon's long history of popularity has been updated with this style of lighting. This trend combines the excitement of futuristic cyberpunk and the nostalgia of neon lighting.

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This phenomenon is leading to a new hybrid type of fashion professional who plays multiple roles; whether or not this is our new normal will determine if this is temporary, or if the hybrid creative is here to stay. The pandemic has a lot of revolutionary potential that we see manifesting in this trend.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has claimed lives, disrupted economies, and changed daily existence as we know it. It has also shown us how strong we can be, and how creative, even in isolation. For this portfolio, part of our special June/July issue, we asked a bevy of photographers, filmmakers, creative directors, and performance artists to give us a glimpse of their lives under lockdown.

What is now the photographer 's atelier was once the home of his grandmother, an avid gardener. He remembers and engages with her memory now by shooting flowers. "These kinds of moments are very rich and peaceful," he says.

Asked what is keeping her calm and collected right now, the photographer -pictured with her son, Leo-replied: "Going back to basics. Home, nature, being in the day."

"I took this image when I was in a moment of despair about the world, to be honest," the photographer says. "So the idea of getting dressed up or taking a 'fun' selfie with fashion wasn't exciting me. But I was really into the foot-on-the-world graphic on my T-shirt, which is from Monty Python. I feel it nicely summed up the state of things."

Tina Barney, Rhode Island

"I've been making works on paper from my own photographs and snapshots since the 1990s," says Barney from her home. "I thought this would be fun and more gratifying than just taking a selfie with an iPhone."

"To be represented as a blur could be reflective of the passing of time," the photographer says, appearing here with his partner, Constanza. "Gardening has been extremely satisfying, and a way of being directly in contact with nature: To observe something that progresses so slowly-the simplicity of a fern pushing through the soil and unfurling over a week-has definitely installed a new sense of calm in me."

" In the Waiting is an ongoing series where I attempt to take a photograph every day during my COVID-19 quarantine," the London-born photographer and filmmaker says. "It's a process that has not only humbled me, but also allowed me to face a vulnerability in my work that I thought I'd lost. In the Waiting will document these anxious times, and serve as a placeholder to remember that stillness is also life, and chaos can birth beautiful ideas."

"This is the timed lockbox I put my phone in when I write," says July. "During quarantine I feel somewhat justified in my off-the-charts level of screen time; we have to connect somehow, right? But, just as before quarantine, constant, low-grade connection kind of destroys my capacity for writing-which, in the end, is also about connection. So re-finding that balance has been a challenge all over again."

Daniel Jackson, Millbrook, New York

"This picture is of my youngest, Noah, confined indoors, directing the invasion of the kitchen table and interrupting his brother and sister's online school," the photographer says. "It brings an optimism and energy to us during this challenging time."

"I've been photographing for about five years, and this is the second time I've ever tried to photograph myself and the first time where my face is actually in the image," says Mckenzie. "I think a lot usually about how my subject feels when I'm photographing them; it's important that they feel comfortable and empowered, and I usually connect with them during those moments on an energetic or personal level in order to represent them properly. When it came to photographing myself, I felt awkward at first. I'm so used to seeing and finding the beauty in others, but through this I've had to really find it in myself."

Nigel Shafran, Devon, England

"Isolation has given me so much time to breathe. After nonstop travel the past few years, this moment of stillness has been really grounding," the photographer says. Her idle hours are mostly devoted to "reading a lot, meditation, connecting with friends and family around the world, and living in the present moment."

The New York-based photographer has a knack for capturing kooky, almost psychedelic still-lifes. Here, he combines two unlikely subjects: snails and citrus. "I've had snails as pets for a few years now," says Doherty. "These ones are a few months old; they spend most of their days sleeping in their shells, but I've been taking them out and playing with them more often now. I basically spend all day staring at my snails and the fruits and flowers I've bought to cheer myself up. Blobs of bright colors smooshed together make me feel good."

"These photos make up a portrait of me at this time," says the photographer. "They were taken in the last few weeks either at home or nearby while social distancing. Many of the objects in these photos were collected while traveling with photography."

"I'm wearing what has become my quarantine uniform. Not quite pajamas, not quite on-duty clothing. As long as I do Zoom meetings from the waist up, no one can see my favorite pair of ill-fitting lounge pants," says the New York City-based photographer, who routinely mines the space between observational and staged photography. "If you wear the same thing every day, there's more time to think about how I'm going to use the same ingredients from yesterday to make something different for lunch today."

Diamond Stingily, New York

"This is a portrait my friend, the gallerist and artist Sam Lipp, is painting of me while he is isolated in his studio," says the American-born artist. "The title of the portrait is Diamond at Her Grandma's. "

Moises Saman, Amman, Jordan

The American-Spanish photojournalist took this image in late March. As he describes it: "A lone man sits on the balcony of an apartment building in the Abdoun district of Amman, during a country-wide curfew imposed by the Jordanian government to fight the spread of COVID-19."

"To make a photograph can be a form of daytime dreaming," the Norwegian-born photographer says. "I don't reject the subtle symbols that bubble up. The part of a photograph that crosses a line has perhaps less weight and little nutritional value, but visually it's everything. So also with this citrus from a corner store here in Highbury." He continues, "The unusually vivid and sunny spring gives a sense of hope. Later this week I'll be able to process photographic film again, so things are looking up. These are the sweet little lies I tell myself."

"My wife took the picture of me, says the photographer. "We adopted three cats, a parrot, and the (ever-growing) pig. The red inflatable suit was given to me by a friend last year. One day, the sun was shining. I put it on, and my wife took this picture on the balcony with my pig. The pig slept happily and didn't notice that I was different from usual."

Gordon von Steiner, New York

"There is nothing keeping me calmer and more hopeful than the 7 p.m, cheer that happens every evening in New York," says the director. "If I stand at the edge of the East River in Williamsburg, I can hear cheering from Manhattan across the water. I love that."

Rafa Esparza, Los Angeles

In his performance work, the multidisciplinary artist has typically used a mask of his face to establish a "psychological distance" between himself and his audience. Here, however, he's created a "corona mask," which he wears with a T-shirt bearing a pointed message. "It's important now more than ever to support folks in dire states of neglect and danger through the work of organizations seeking justice for migrant communities in detention, who are the most vulnerable to the threat of COVID-19," he says. Surrounding him are various family members: "Behind me is a portrait I painted of my dear hermanx San Cha, an L.A.-based musician helping soothe my days with her angelic voice. With me is also my younger cousin Pedro Zamora, an emerging photographer who took my picture."

Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Los Angeles

"I've been away from my studio this entire lockdown, just going once to bring my computer and cameras home after the first week," says the photographer. "Every week or so I try to make a few pictures, and have been using multiple exposures to layer observations from home. Nothing fancy, but it yields a little something to do."

"I take a lot of nature walks, listen to audiobooks, do some gardening, and I enjoy taking photographs and videos with my iPhone," says the Iranian-born artist. "I am starting to like my new 'country' look, wearing jeans, boots, hats-but always with my heavy eyeliner on!"

Quinn Wilson, Maui, Hawaii

"Although she's not in the photo, my girlfriend took [this picture of me]," says the creative director. "I'm fortunate enough to be quarantined with people I love. My girlfriend and I are writing together, which has been an incredibly collaborative experience and has helped keep my focus on creativity and off anxiety (which, honey, I have a lot of)."

"I think staying healthy and active brings a sense of control in these crazy times. Also keeping the creative conversations going with my friends and coming up with projects we can still realize under these circumstances," says the fashion photographer. "[For] this image...we were discussing ways to keep making things with my friend Francelle, who is an amazing makeup artist, so she dropped off products from her brand Lovecraft Beauty at my door. Then she directed me on Zoom to do my own makeup and we did a little beauty story while staying safe."

"After five weeks on the campaign trail for Vogue, I escaped to Europe to take part in a sparsely attended art show in Brussels," the photographer says. "I took this photo rushing back to Paris by train before they shut the border. Eventually I made it back to an ominous, lonesome New York City." Yet there's a sign of hope hiding in his image. "If you look closely, you can see the camera strap that my closest friends got me for my birthday years ago. It's a reminder that one of these days, these days will end."

The photographer is best known for her portraits of celebrities-Jay-Z, Solange, and Bella Hadid, to name a few-but for her own self-portrait, she went with something more ethereal. "This is a representation of how I'm feeling," she says of the split-screen shot. "I'm home, quarantined with myself, feeling boxed-in but also feeling free."

"I have been spending a lot of my quarantine going through the un- or underused items in my closet and upcycling or mending them into things that I am excited to wear again," says the photographer. "Before the pandemic, I was working with the OR Foundation, a not-for-profit organization focused on the global impacts of fashion/clothing waste, and I'm taking this opportunity to turn that research more pointedly on myself," he says. "Beyond my closet, I have also been honing my sewing skills by helping my close friend and collaborator Hillary Taymour of Collina Strada create masks for health care workers. We spent part of a day together alternating between making masks and making this image by playing dress-up."

Inez and Vinoodh, Long Island, New York

The Dutch photographers thought back-or perhaps forward-to better times while creating their image: "Our happiest moments are when all our friends are together for dinner at our home, talking, cooking, sharing food, and supporting each other through life's ups and downs."

Alana O'Herlihy, Los Angeles

For her highly stylized self-portrait, the artist dreamt up a character named Brooklyn. "It is an ode to my hometown of New York, which I miss so very much right now as I am quarantined in Los Angeles," she says. "Brooklyn has taken up a new hobby of bobbing for apples and working on her suntan during this trying time. She is more and more perplexed as the days go on, but can find solace in counting apples."

Quarantined at home with his family, the photographer models a makeup look conceived by his daughters, Martha and Mila. Helping to keep him at ease, Wetherell says, is "sleeping well and a little bit of wine."

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