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SIX FEET FROM FRIENDS, A PORTRAIT SERIES BY JUSTIN HADLEY
”This project started as a very straightforward idea: create a series of portraits that shows what being 6 feet from a person looks like. I use a 6-foot long stick to keep a safe distance, a light on a boom arm, and a 50mm lens. The choice of lens is crucial because with the camera I’m using, it best depicts the way a human eye sees a scene. As I set out to create the portraits that fall within the parameters I created, I quickly realized that the project was taking control of itself and decided what it needed to be about - conversations. The quarantine, the thing that prompted the project in the first place, is what became the entry point for every conversation that I had while photographing and led into more meaningful conversations with each person. Conversations that not only would I not be having because of the quarantine but that I might not have in general. It became a project about connecting and reconnecting. About helping each other understand this thing we’re all going through at once together and alone. About getting to know people better and hopefully setting precedent for how we can remain better friends after we are allowed to gather together again.”
