There is a great deal of scholarship on the 'seated portrait,' which we will not go into here, but for our purposes, the requirement had the effect of making the portrait a deliberate act. In all photos, the subject needed to be seated, the photos needed to be in portrait format at a 5x7 aspect ratio, and we wanted to avoid mirror selfies. The call for submissions had a few stipulations. Our hope was to share varied experiences across age, ethnicity, and culture.
As curators for the project, our objective was to have as broad and diverse a representation of this global experience as possible. Vincent Keith of MASCULAR Studio and Oliver Zeuke of Photomolekuel are pleased to announce the launch of A Portrait in Isolation, a project exploring emotional and physical space in lockdown.Īt the end of March 2020, as the COVID-19 global pandemic grew in scope and impact, gay men around the world were asked to submit self portraits that reflected their experience of the coronavirus lock-down.