Isolation in New York by Ximena Echague

Living in New York at the height of the pandemic, as a street photographer in lockdown, I have tried to narrate my personal reality of fear, uncertainty, anguish and despair through self-portraits. The new plague had confined us, allowing only for introspection, imagination, and symbolism to capture the new fuzzy reality, the invisible risk, the permanent fear. With too much time to think, anxiety ebbs and flows, the past seems blurred, the present doesn’t make sense, the future is uncertain. And yet, we try to overcome the paralysis, to reinvent ourselves. Every morning I looked at myself, trying to connect with the intense emotions caused by the confinement and the harsh reality, recreat...View all