ARDN516_2021_02City The Image Sem 2 2021 City

The story inspiration of my photography works comes from Magnum photographers around the world, working and living under varying degrees of social restriction. It made me realize that although my movement was restricted due to the epidemic, it didn't affect my shooting. The theme of my photography is the scenery at home. Due to the sudden lockdown of the epidemic, we are all locked in our own bubble and home became the place where everyone stays the most, including myself, so I choose my home as the scene for my shooting to show what life is like under the pandemic. I photographed what I saw outside from home through my view.

Lockdown is unfamiliar to me. In these lonely days I used a combination of my optimism and positiveness to make the surrounding landscape around my home become positive. The street also became empty because of the lockdown, I feel Auckland has lost its former prosperity. There are buildings all around the apartment, the scenery at home is almost the same every day. Fortunately, the scenery in my eye changes upon the weather, good weather will make things warm. I photographed my cat to reflect my own state, in addition to stay at home occasionally looking outward to think about when can restore freedom. Although the scenery at home is no more than the outside, I will keep a good mood to face every day.  

In this task, I explored shooting the surrounding environment under different lights, which is interesting. Because I also chose the surrounding buildings as the shooting scene in the last assignment, I also tried to shoot the same location with different themes this time. What made it difficult for me this time was that I could not shoot more scenes due to the restriction of movement.  

The balcony of my home became a place for me to breathe fresh air every day, where I could see outside and feel the silence brought by the blockade. I like the different feelings brought to me by the environment in different weather. On rainy days, the surrounding crowed buildings are depressed, but when the sun falls on the buildings, I feel warm and forget the existence of the epidemic now.