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I prefer to do shoots through Zoom for a couple of reasons. The main reason is my mental health. I find social meetings incredibly stressful because I find people in general quite stressful to be around so this is a better way to do this without creating excessive anxiety on me. Part of my anxiety around people is probably why I enjoy making people look the way they do in my images because it’s a reflection of how I often view people anyway.
The secondary reason is that I live in quite an idyllic part of the UK. Within this, the photography scene is very beauty based. It’s highly focused around girls in bikini’s on a beach. So in some respects, my work is a reaction and a conflict to that. But it also means that the chances of finding people to sit for portraits locally is lessened.