Photographer Bella_Newman's quarantine diary is a strangely beautiful tribute to her inner child, filled with Calico Critters and Gunne Sax gowns.
was in her second-to-last semester at New York University’s filmmaking program. In the middle of March, right as circumstances in the city started to escalate, she packed up her things to go into lockdown with her extended family and two friends in her suburban Central Pennsylvania home. She’s currently working on a feature film for one of her classes, which are now taking place remotely, and being home has actually helped her get back into the spirit of this project.
Aside from this script, Newman’s been working on a photo series that bears a similar nostalgic influence. Newman typically shoots on film, but for this self-isolation photo diary that she’s now shared withshe’s been using her dad’s old digital camera. “Every picture I have of myself as a child was taken with this camera,” she says.
Her provincial surroundings have compelled her to take a more resourceful, arts and crafts approach, building off of the lovesickseries at the beginning of the year. The photographer also recently taught herself how to crochet, and she’s been sewing little dresses for the six rabbits her family recently acquired. For the purposes of the photographs, she’s excavated beloved objects from her childhood to create eerie new settings.
The baby pink, lace-lined Gunne Sax dress that she poses in while her little cousin holds up a tie-dyed teddy bear isn’t something that she found from the dark depths of her closet, though. That frock was a spontaneous eBay purchase that Newman ordered just because she wanted to take a picture in it. “I looked up ‘Civil War ball gown’ on eBay, but I didn’t look at the size when I bought it,” she says. “It’s huge.
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