portraits from isolation

  • Dates
    2020 - Ongoing
  • Author
  • Topics Contemporary Issues, Documentary, Portrait, Travel
  • Location Lisbon, Portugal

A virtual travel within the walls of my house, documenting the stillness of people in lcokdown all around the world in order to provide an insight into the spectrum of individual spaces and experiences.

My intention was to virtually travel within the walls of my house, in order to document the stillness of people in quarantine all around the world and provide an insight into the spectrum of individual spaces and experiences.

Through this project, I intended to investigate the concept of limit as a confining line, subjective space as well as its arbitrary nature, through an intimate and emotional process. A country, a city, a house: their existence is defined by their boundaries. We move inside those spaces that somehow define who we are, who we are not.

A limit usually implies the presence of a restriction to respect, an obstacle to overcome or an enemy to defeat. The historical time that we are living in is emblematic in showing how limits can be extremely tangible, as much as they can manifest in pure abstraction.

It’s within those limits that we define freedom, and amidst them we navigate to find our place.

© Eleonora Signorini - DAVE and friends - Puttaparthi, India
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DAVE and friends - Puttaparthi, India

© Eleonora Signorini - FADA - Tangier, Morocco
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FADA - Tangier, Morocco

© Eleonora Signorini - JULE and LARS - Groningen, Holland
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JULE and LARS - Groningen, Holland

© Eleonora Signorini - MOHAMED - Bangkok, Thailand
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MOHAMED - Bangkok, Thailand

© Eleonora Signorini - ELISA and JOHN - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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ELISA and JOHN - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

© Eleonora Signorini - HANNA - Hanoi, Vietnam
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HANNA - Hanoi, Vietnam

© Eleonora Signorini - HASAN and ZAFIR - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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HASAN and ZAFIR - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

© Eleonora Signorini - ANNABRET - Tartu, Estonia
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ANNABRET - Tartu, Estonia

© Eleonora Signorini - NICOLE - London, England
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NICOLE - London, England

© Eleonora Signorini - SALMAN - Busaiteen, Muharraq, Kingdom of Bahrain
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SALMAN - Busaiteen, Muharraq, Kingdom of Bahrain

© Eleonora Signorini - ROMANO - S. Francisco, California, USA
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ROMANO - S. Francisco, California, USA

© Eleonora Signorini - PORSHA - Hudsonville, Michigan, USA
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PORSHA - Hudsonville, Michigan, USA

© Eleonora Signorini - TINZAR - Yangon, Myanmar
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TINZAR - Yangon, Myanmar

© Eleonora Signorini - MAROUANE - Bruxelles, Belgium
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MAROUANE - Bruxelles, Belgium

© Eleonora Signorini - ZINULYA - Kropyvnyzkyi, Ukraine
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ZINULYA - Kropyvnyzkyi, Ukraine

© Eleonora Signorini - SCOTT and IAN - Leicester, England
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SCOTT and IAN - Leicester, England

© Eleonora Signorini - SILANYAN and EMMA - Vientiane, Lao
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SILANYAN and EMMA - Vientiane, Lao

© Eleonora Signorini - SUMIT - Butwal, Rupandehi, Nepal
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SUMIT - Butwal, Rupandehi, Nepal