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How has the last year or so been for you?
It’s interesting that you ask me. I thought I was doing all right actually, but I think that there’s so much lost over these virtual mediums. Part of it felt like, “Oh yeah, it’s really great, because we can still keep working,” and we’ve definitely done a lot better than some businesses that have really struggled, because of restrictions.
We’ve been allowed to work all the way through, pretty much from June last year so, that’s been great, but I just think that what we gained in ease and the ability to just have these types of conversations, the loss is the personal one-on-one stuff. People don’t really, or haven’t till maybe the last few months, realised how important it is. Being a photographer, so much stuff is in the room, so much of it is what the vibe, what the energy, is. Now, in terms of my social life, I’m quite a solo person anyway. But if it had happened to me in my 20s, I would have been devastated.
The world has changed, though, and there are so many good things that have come out of it, too, for the environment, and the whole process of why we’re doing things. Personally I’ve done some of my best work. And I’ve started to take photos on my own again, which I haven’t done for years.
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