2020 was the most unexpected year. Faced with many challenges and difficulties this is what Zero Members photographed..
Jenn Meeus
2020 marked the beginning of a new chapter as I moved to the French countryside. Following my arrival, I started a photo series called “The Indomitables”, documenting rural communities living in the region called “Le Morvan” (Burgundy, France). This on-going project aims at highlighting their ability to maintain social and cultural links and to keep their land alive. But as France was under lockdown for two months and as I was unable to wander around freely, I decided to make one self-portrait a day during quarantine. With one idea in mind: to intertwine reality and fiction.
Selfportrait, Ouroux-en-Morvan, France, May 2020.
Child playing. Ouroux-en-Morvan, France, May 2020.
A mother helping her step-daughter to get dressed for a wedding. Ouroux-en-Morvan, France, September 2020.
A family afternoon by the lake. Blaisy, Chaumard, France, August 2020.
Farm life. L’huis Billard, Montigny-en-Morvan, France, July 2020.
Foggy day. Ouroux-en-Morvan, France, December 2020.
Selfportrait. Ouroux-en-Morvan, France, April 2020.
Kasia Trojak
Photographically, 2020 has been very productive and inspiring. I have taken pictures every month. Longing for connection and a sense of community I felt photography was my main motivation to get through this challenging year.
The day after Kobe Bryant’s death along the Malecón in Havana, Cuba. January 2020
Boys playing in the street. Havana, Cuba. February 2002
Preparation for the Carnival Parade. Oaxaca, Mexico. March 2020
Passengers at the Central de Abastos bus station. Oaxaca, Mexico. March 2020
Portrait of Sylwia, on a road trip to Lancaster, California. May 2020
A mother and a son at the Black Lives Matter protest in the Fairfax District. Los Angeles, CA. June 2020
Abandoned truck along the road to Hana. Maui. July 2020
Kristof Huf
Since February 2019, I am regularly traveling from Munich, Germany, to Svinia trying to capture in writing and photography what the Residents choose to show me.
Svinia is a village in eastern Slovakia consisting of two settlements of almost similar size, one inhabited by Romani. Founded in the nineteenth century by a handful migrants, the Roma population has grown over the decades to become one of the largest
settlements of rural Roma in the entire district. Set in the centre of Europe the Roma part of Svinia is haunted by unemployment, exploitation, violence, substance abuse, and resignation.
Esmeralda with her family / Septemper 2020 Svinia
Painting of Maria with her child / September 2020 Svinia
Girl with her mother looking in the mirror / September 2020 Svinia
In the Livingroom / september 2020 Svinia
Inside the settlement / September 2020 Svinia
Preparing, to get their pictures taken / September 2020 Svinia
Raimund Moser
One year ago my head was full of plans: workshops I would attend, travelling to some interesting places and continuing some of my personal projects. Things evolved differently. In the end, I spent the whole year in Munich and surroundings - for me visually not the most interesting places. I can’t say that I didn’t take pictures. On the contrary, I took a lot, but mostly of my family and during the occasional Sunday strolls. The pictures are an excerpt of that.
Omer Babadag
Too much happened, a lot!
It was globally heavy for everyone I guess. Losing family members, good friends, jobs, lots of time, waste of a whole year.
I have never experienced this much isolation personally. Tried my best to keep the ones I love as safe as possible, even sometimes avoiding a kiss or a handshake. In a whole year, going further and further away from people (l'impossible distanciation) yielded this primitive loneliness, also yet another chance to sit down and look around more carefully.
Now I recognize all the stray dogs in my hometown, can guess a cat's gender by a look, have a few trees that i visit, and more islands.
I just want to forget this fuckin' year.
Costas Polinakis
This year’s quarantine didn’t give us many options especially for travel. So I started experimenting in my home town of Athens, Greece mostly with infrared photography. For me it was also a good opportunity to play with film photography again.
At Athens beach, between the lockdowns
Pine trees in infrared, look like cauliflowers
Roof rehearsal for a theatrical play in Athens
Park in Athens in infrared, at midday
A shop owner in central Athens
Infrared landscape at the former royal park near Athens
Eleni Albarosa
2020 was an intense year. To me, the Covid pandemic was also an opportunity to stop and reassess more carefully what I have taken for granted previously. I was stuck in Italy in the city where I grew up and with which I never had an easy relationship with and I was able to rediscover it.
