Quarantine Stories: A Self Portrait Project By - Christopher Malcolm - Los Angeles based Lifestyle, Fitness, Activewear, Sports and Fashion Photographer and Director

Quarantine Stories

As a friend of mine’s father once wrote in a script, “A writer writes. Always.” Turns out the same is true in photography as I’ve been creating just as much work, if not more, since being under the stay-at-home order as before. Sadly, without a live-in model, I’ve been forced to turn the camera on myself. But these daily experiments have also led me to create a lot of new work I’m proud of and I’d like to share it with you.

So, in a series that I’ll be calling Quarantine Stories, I’ll be sharing a few different “episodes.” Why call them “episodes?” Well, my journey to becoming an artist began with filmmaking. Specifically screenwriting. Back in those days, long before I ever picked up a camera, my experience with photography was using images as reference material to inspire storylines. Not so much that I would take the action in the photo and make it into a movie. More so, that I would pin them to the wall above my computer, observe the subject in the photograph, and that person might inspire a character which, in turn, begged the question of what their story might be. So, imagine these episodes to do the same. They aren’t complete scripts. Rather fragments in time of a specific character. Maybe they will be a jumping off point for your own imagination.