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OUR SOCIAL DISTANCE

OUR CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY ESSAY
PRODUCED DURING OF THE COVID19 PANDEMIC

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BY ESZTER PAPP

 
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OUR
SOCIAL
DISTANCE

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.

RATIONAL

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.

 
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ZERO CARBON

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.

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ZERO CARBON PORTRAITS PROJECT DETAILS

Project Date 
August 2020-October 2020 

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Book release TBC
Photo Exhibitions TBC

Photographer/Producer: Eszter Papp
Writer: Fraser Morton
Designer: Ali Kelly
Produced by: Far Features Ltd

 
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MEDIA & EXHIBITIONS

 

THE MAN AND THE MACHINE TO EXHIBIT ‘OUR SOCIAL DISTANCING’ WEBCAM PORTRAITS

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The 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.  

Eszter 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.

THE MAN AND THE MACHINE EXHIBITION 

Since the first complex and automated technological inventions (starting from the experimental science of the sixteenth century up to the current electronic and digital machines) the relationship between man and machine has characterised every evolutionary development of civilisation.

Each new invention indelibly marks not only the course of technical development, but also the same vision of the world of man. A distinctive sign in the man-machine relationship is precisely the determined will of the individual and his mental structure to accept the instant modification of his habits by virtue of a new technological discovery.

Today the dependence on intelligent machines is made manifest in every field concerning human activity. Especially since the 19th century, art has represented an important cultural field through which we may reflect on the relationship between man and machine, starting from the futurist experiences in the pictorial field, passing through the film productions of Fritz Lang with Metropolis and Ridley Scott with Blade Runner, up to the contemporary images of Thomas Struth in the photographic field. This exhibition invited photographers and visual designers to propose works capable of offering a vision of the current historical and social context and responding to the theme of the relationship between man and machine. 

Exhibition by @Loosenart Exhibition details here
Eszter’s projects here

Our Social distancing by Eszter Papp
Our Social Distancing by Eszter Papp
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