Isolation around the world, captured by photographer Emily Soto 📸 via Dazed
Over the course of the last few months it’s become clear that, when it comes to video calls, you either love them or you don’t. For all those willing to join the 9am office Zoom call with their camera switched on, or posting clips of themselves and their friends having a full-on Houseparty dance sessions to theirstories, equally, there are countless others doing the absolute most to avoid communicating through FaceTime – no matter how much they miss their family and friends right now.
What do you do, then, in the midst of a global pandemic, when your whole job revolves around being face-to-face with people but you fall firmly into the latter camp? It’s a question photographerhad to ask herself a month into lockdown, when a model got in touch to ask her if she’d capture her remotely via video call. It turns out, Soto’s will to remain creative while in quarantine won out. “I’m primarily an analogue photographer and it felt like such a foreign process,” she explains.
Having left New York behind and settled back into life in the mountains of North Carolina with her family, the first model Soto captured was activist and filmmaker. “We worked together on a project for Universal Standard last year and had been wanting to work together again – but with her being in Iceland I hadn’t had the chance,” she says. Despite her initial reservations “it was amazing to reconnect and create images together remotely,” she adds.
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