Zihao
Qiao

Graduate
London College of Communication
Graduate Diploma Photography

New Normal 2020—Emotions During the Isolation

#newnormal2020 #photography #sp2020

Since April 2020, COVID19 has been erupting around the world. It is undoubtedly a difficult and special time for people all over the world. China as the country with the earliest cases of infection, I am deeply aware of this. Emotions During the Isolation project began at that moment. I created it because during self-isolation, I realized that I had problems with emotion management. I became irritable and depressed when I was alone. I found out through research that there is a lot of people are facing the same problem. This is the result of the long absence of social contact. I took these pictures to express my feelings and emotions during isolation. I took images for every emotion that I had, and in the process of sorting them out, I understood the meaning of self-reflection. This allows me to calmly and objectively face my negative emotions and analyze the reasons. That means a lot to me. I realized the meaning of being alive, how can I face life and how can I make life wonderful. I hope to influence people through my photography and encourage them to actively face isolation life. “You don't know what you really want until you've experienced the case that you don’t want.”