QUARANTINE

”Distress, Gain Hopes And Back To Quarantine” Quarantine days have been a forceful mind treatment for many of us. We had so much time that we have never had before to think about the maze of our existence. ‘how are we going to solve our problems?’ ‘why do such things keep happening?’ ‘are we always right?’ ‘who else would we want to share these thoughts with?’ ‘why do we take decisions like these?’ ‘what kind of future do we desire?’ … I was thinking about almost everything during my days in quarantine. To keep myself sane i was watching the ocean from my balcony on the 25th floor. and i was seeing people trying to get rid of their stress for a couple of minutes in their own ways. it was necessary to have some outside moments to keep mental power high enough for standing strong during the isolation period. Even though they were outside, the moments they were having were extremely private. I could feel them struggling with their self questioning, their thoughts were almost visible. I wanted to document every second of those moments to reflect the psychological side of the pandemic. I was far enough from them to not disturb their treatment and my position was high enough to not disclose their identities. I positioned them in my photographs in the corner, kept a big ocean space in the rest of the frame to represent the relation between them and the future they hope to live trough.