ADAPTING TO A NEW NORMAL WITH SUSTAINABLE ART
ZERO CARBON PORTRAITS PHOTO PROJECT USES SOCIALLY-DISTANCED WEBCAM CALLS TO TELL SUSTAINABILITY & CLIMATE ACTION STORIES
A new photographic project is proving ‘new normal art’ can adapt to lockdown limitations imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic — and help the environment.
Zero Carbon Portraits is a sustainable art project for the sustainability movement in 2020.
The project has been created by professional Hungarian documentary photographer, Eszter Papp, as a creative response to the pandemic.
Zero Carbon Portraits is an offshoot of Eszter’s first lockdown series, Our Social Distancing, which began in early 2020 during the height of the pandemic, and has since garnered media attention as well as being selected for The Man And The Machine exhibition in Rome in November 2020.
With her “Our Social Distancing” series , Eszter experimented with new ways to create images amidst a pandemic by photographing subjects via live webcam video calls.
She manipulated the images through layers and colours, echoing a sense of distorted reality that the viewer and subject have formed under isolation.
Using this new way of making images, she captured portraits of subjects in Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Italy, New Zealand, Pakistan, Singapore, Thailand, UK and USA. Now, she is turning her attention to the sustainability movement and subjects who are working to tackle climate change.
“The pandemic is taking so much attention away from other important issues facing our society and the environment, “Eszter said, “And I want to explore the continuing work of people working internationally within the sustainability movement, working on issues related to climate change.”
Zero Carbon portraits is a portrait series of people working during the pandemic in the sustainability and climate action movements.
There is no travel involved at all to produce this series. And the entire project, including photo kit, is being offset via carbon capture partnerships to bring the whole footprint of the project to Carbon Zero.
The project is independent and currently self-funded. Partners and sponsors are being sought after and can reach out here if interested to learn more and support this project.
By Far Features staff
