PHOTOS which capture life as it was in 2020 are being displayed as part of Frankston Art Centre’s This Time Last Year online exhibition.
Jenny Rusby’s collection The Year We Stayed at Home explores the importance of family and connection during a year in which everyone was kept apart. “The aim of The Year We Stayed Home was to capture that closeness at home, where we spent so much time, so we can remember that unique time together,” Ms Rusby said.
“Families were gifted the sessions for free in exchange to committing to do at least one act of kindness to pay it forward into the community. It’s my hope that you’ll look back at these portraits in the years to come and remember that year, The Year We Stayed Home. Remember how difficult it was, yet how communities came together to get through it, how families were given the opportunity to stop what they were doing and spend quality time together. To remember that closeness we felt in our homes.”
All Dressed Up, Nowhere to Go by Lisa Atkinson is a series which captures moments of glamour in lockdown. “Not long after the start of the COVID-19 lockdowns in April 2020, what started as a fun little idea for socially distant photoshoots among a small group of close friends, turned into a large scale photographic project, All Dressed Up, Nowhere to Go,” Ms Atkinson said.
“As word of mouth spread through friends and social media shares, I ended up photographing over 70 fabulous women and one man over two months, with each subject getting all glammed up to venture no further than their driveways. The brief to each participant was simple – go as glam as possible, get creative with your theme and how it relates to your world in lockdown, and most of all, have fun.“
To see the exhibitions visit youtube.com/user/FrankstonArtsCentre