{"id":63272,"date":"2020-06-23T09:58:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T08:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=63272"},"modified":"2020-06-24T08:30:39","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T07:30:39","slug":"photographers-reimagining-the-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2020\/06\/photographers-reimagining-the-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographers Reimagining the Lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking back: an interview with rural photographer, Kristina Banholzer on the chance to document Welsh communities during the lockdown.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

It was only last week that the First Minister for Wales announced new steps to unlock Wales again. As businesses begin to open up once more, and the current 5-mile travel ban is expected to lift in July, rural creatives like Kristina Banholzer look back on the importance of family community and the chance to document Welsh communities during lockdown.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Kristina, she looks back on documenting the lives in her hometown of Y Felinheli and the effects the lockdown has had on her photography business, becoming a new mother and why she supports Wales on taking its own steps to help keep the nation safe over the past three months.<\/p>\n

Kristina is a Documentary Photographer hailing from North Wales. She has worked with various Welsh and international companies, creating colourful and energetic images. Some of her clients include \u2018S4C\u2019,\u00a0the \u2018BBC\u2019, and \u2018Sky\u2019 as well as various theatre companies including, \u2018Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru\u2019 and \u2018The Welsh National Opera\u2019.<\/p>\n

Kristina\u2019s responses have been translated into English and Welsh. Kristina is a Welsh photographer and as I am also proud to be Welsh, too so, I wanted to promote our language in this interview. For anyone learning Welsh, I hope you find this helpful, too.<\/p>\n

Family Community<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This global epidemic has saw most people make a complete switch from a daily commute to work, to a daily zoom call in their pyjama bottoms from their living room.<\/p>\n

Life has been very different and will continue to focus on being able to do the important things.<\/p>\n

Rural Wales, photographer, Kristina Banholzer lives in Y Felinheli with her family. As a freelance creative supporting a young family, she said she felt the challenges brought on by the Covid-19 epidemic but, focused on family community in both her work and home life, to seek a newfound balance.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think it has affected communities in both positive and negative ways. I have found that by talking to families, they are enjoying spending time together and living life in a slightly\u00a0\u2018old fashioned manner\u2019\u00a0in comparison to how they used to live. We have all noticed that we lived life in the fast lane and by slowing everything down a pace we have come to appreciate the things that were right under our nose; family, friends and nature.<\/p>\n

I have also felt that communities have grown closer and are thinking of others a lot more, it has been wonderful to hear older\/vulnerable people speak so highly of their neighbours. It\u2019s important to document people during this time purely to give people something to look back and remember a time in history because I think unfortunately and inevitably, we will slip back into normality within a blink of an eye,\u201d Kristina says.<\/p>\n

\u201c’Dw i\u2019n meddwl ei fod o\u00a0\u2018di effeithio cymunedau mewn ffordd bositif a negatif. Tra\u2019n siarad efo gwahanol deuluoedd\u00a0\u2018dw i\u00a0\u2018di clywed nhw\u2019n deud bod nhw yn mwynhau cael treulio amser gyda\u2019i gilydd a byw ychydig yn fwy hen fashwn i gymharu efo bywyd cyn lockdown.\u00a0\u2018Dw i\u2019n meddwl bo\u2019\u00a0ni gyd wedi sylwi ein bod ni di bod yn byw bywyd yn y\u00a0\u2018fast lane\u2019\u00a0a drwy arafu\u2019n ddiweddar mi yda ni\u2019n gallu gwerthfawrogi be\u2019\u00a0sydd reit o dan ein trwyna: teulu, ffrindia\u2019\u00a0a natur.<\/p>\n

\u2018Dw i hefyd yn teimlo bod perthynas o fewn cymunedau wedi cryfhau, pobol yn fwy parod i feddwl am eraill. Mae o\u2019n cynnesu nghalon i pan glwyaf bobl hynaf\u00a0a mwya\u2019\u00a0bregus y gymuned yn canmol eu cymodogion am helpu. Mai\u2019n bwysig dogfennu pobol yn ystod y cyfnod yma i nhw gael cofio adeg mewn hanes – yn anffodus, yn anochel mi fyddwn ni wedi slipio nol mewn i\u00a0\u2018normality\u2019\u00a0mewn amrant,\u201d says, Kristina.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Reimagining the lockdown<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Part of an initial project to connect with her family community, Kristina decided to document life in Y Felinheli through with permission and safe distancing- photograph \u2018family life\u2019 outside their homes.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI have had a really positive response from everyone, it has been quite overwhelming! I have messages coming in every day asking me to swing by their house as they would like a photo taken, my list is long and I am slowly making my way through it.<\/p>\n

I feel like I am able to give families a gift by taking their photo because, I know it won\u2019t mean as much to them now, but in years to come this photo will be priceless. By posting colourful happy photos on social media platforms I hope I\u2019m bringing joy to people from not only Felinheli but further afield too.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDim byd ond ymateb positif gan bawb, mae o\u00a0\u2018di bod yn reit overwhelming!\u00a0\u2018Dw i\u2019n cael negeseuon bob dydd yn holi of fedra i fynd heibio ei cartre nhw i dynnu llun, mae\u2019r list yn un hir ond yn ara\u2019\u00a0bach\u00a0\u2018dw i\u2019n cael drwyddi. Mae rhoi\u2019r llunia i\u2019r teuluoedd yn teimlo fel rhodd, efallai nad ydi o\u2019n bwysig ar y funud yma, ond mewn rhai blynyddoedd mi fydd o\u2019n amhrisiadwy. Wrth rhoi llunia\u2019\u00a0lliwgar a hwyl ar wefannau cymdeithasol\u00a0\u2018dw i\u2019n gobeithio codi calon pobol, nid yn unig pobol Felinheli ond unrhywun sydd yn dilyn fy ngwaith.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Social Normality<\/strong><\/p>\n

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With movements like the \u2018stay home, stay safe\u2019 and \u2018run 5k, donate 5-pounds to the NHS\u2019, it has given people an opportunity to find comfort in that as a nation and a planet, we are willing to help each other during epidemics like Covid-19.<\/p>\n

Although, we are soon to be returning to work and to some normality, there will be dramatic changes to our previous lifestyles.<\/p>\n

With measures like social distancing and wearing personal protective equipment in work and in public already in place, and the additional five-mile travel ban in Wales over the past few weeks (set to be lifted in two weeks), routines and business models have already been adjusted.<\/p>\n

Whether you own a business or are working for one, being able to see support online and share similar experiences of \u2018lockdown life\u2019 and how it has changed your life is an important part of our social norms.<\/p>\n

Kristina notes,<\/p>\n

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\u201cit\u2019s nice to have a familiar image to compare your life to and knowing that people in the next village \/ town \/ city are all at home and facing the same problems too is very comforting for people.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have found that posting people\u2019s stories help others to empathise or compare experiences, it helps people feel connected even if they don\u2019t know the person.\u00a0I will be having an exhibition sometime in the future in order to bring everyone back together and look at all of the images, this will be a project that will be in Felinheli\u2019s history and I am so happy to be a part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMae o\u2019n braf cael llun o wyneb neu sefyllfa sydd yn gyfarwydd, rhywbeth fedrith pobol yn y pentra\u2019\/tref\/dinas nesa\u2019\u00a0uniaithu a hi, gall fod yn gysurus.\u00a0\u2018Dw i\u00a0\u2018di ffeindio bod postio stor\u00efau pobol yn helpu i bobol gael empethi neu cymharu eu sefyllfa nhw, mae o\u2019n helpu i bobol deimlo fel bod cysylltiad efo rhywun\u00a0\u2018di nhw\u2019m yn nabod.<\/p>\n

\u201cMi fydda i\u2019n cael arddangosfa ar ddiwedd y cyfnod yma. Cyfle i bawb ddod yn\u00a0\u00f4l at ei gilydd i gael gweld y llunia. Ma\u2019\u00a0hwn yn broject fydd yn rhan o hanes Y Felinheli, a\u00a0\u2018dw i\u2019n hynod falch o gael bod yn rhan ohonni.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Moving forward<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This epidemic is a historic event and should be documented. Future generations will be able to read and research papers on the virus that saw the world find ways to come together whilst being apart.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think everyone in the world will take something from this epidemic, and it will most certainly be one of those stories you see in a museum that brings a lump to the throat.<\/p>\n

As a person who cares for the environment, I think we have been given a second chance to really look at how much we were abusing the planet. We will also be looking at political issues in a different way, but I won\u2019t go into that! And also, I think we will be keeping in touch and working by using technology a lot more in future. This pandemic has changed almost everything about our lives,\u201d says Kristina.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Dw i\u2019n meddwl neith bawb elwa ryw ffordd neu gilydd o\u2019r pandemic yma, ac yn sicr fydd o\u2019n rywbeth a fydd yn ein gwneud yn emosiynol pan byddwn\u00a0 yn cael ein hatogffa o\u2019r amser. Fel person sydd yn poeni am yr amgylchedd\u00a0\u2018dw i\u2019n credu ein bod ni\u00a0\u2018di cael ail gyfle i edrych ar sut\u00a0\u2018da ni\u2019n cam-drin y blaned.<\/p>\n

Mi fyddwn ni hefyd yn edrych ar wleidyddion mewn ffordd gwahanol,\u00a0\u2018na i\u2019m deud mwy am hyna! Ac hefyd, credaf ein bod ni am ddefnyddio technoleg i weithio a cadw cysylltiad lot mwy yn y dyfodol. Mae\u2019r pandemic wedi newid bron i bob dim am ein bywydau.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Capsulising the lockdown<\/strong><\/p>\n

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For creative industries like photography, the photos collected from projects like Kristina\u2019s will be valued and capsulised as a time that has helped many of us rework old values, and encouraged us to appreciate things that we had previously overlooked.<\/p>\n

Kristina said,<\/p>\n

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\u201cI felt a bit like a conveyer belt before where I was churning out photos and not really taking notice of what I was shooting and not fully appreciating my job. I have been given a rare chance to look at what is really important in life and creatively do something about it.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Mi o\u2019n i\u2019n teimlo fel\u00a0\u2018conveyer belt\u2019\u00a0\u00a0weithia\u2019\u00a0yn tynnu a golygu llwythi o lunia a ddim yn cymyd digon o sylw i fwynhau fy ngwaith. Mae o\u00a0\u2018di\u00a0rhoi cyfle i mi sylwi be\u2019\u00a0ydi\u2019r petha pwysica\u2019\u00a0yn fy mywyd a g\u2019neud rhywbeth creadigol bositif.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Kristina is one of the many photographers who are choosing to document families lives during lockdown. Each photographer has a unique style and angle to the stories they we are able to view through their lens.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re a family that \u2018zooms\u2019 now<\/strong><\/p>\n

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With the UK in lockdown for nearly four months, many families haven\u2019t been able to see each other due to isolation and living in different countries around the world. For families all over the world, they have been able to connect through the video app \u2018Zoom\u2019, where regular video calls are a routine now.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI most definitely see my friends and family more now than I ever did! We keep in touch by doing weekly quizzes and over WhatsApp, just checking in. This is because I used to work so much before lockdown, I used to have to check my diary to see when I could squeeze a visit to my parents in – which is ridiculous!!<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s nice to keep in touch with neighbours too, you never know how someone is really feeling, so just checking in with someone these days goes a long way and helps someone feel like they are not alone in how they are feeling. I have created specific WhatsApp groups for friends who have children and we all post if we are having a tough day with the kids and just need a\u00a0\u2018virtual hug\u2019!\u201d says Kristina.<\/p>\n

\u201cMi ydw i\u2019n gweld fy nheulu a ffrindiau gymaint fwy aml wan! Mi yda ni\u2019n cael cwis wythnosol ac yn cadw cysylltaid dros whatsapp, just\u00a0\u2018check\u2019-io fewn. O\u2019n i\u2019n arfer gweithio gymaint cyn lockdown, o\u2019n i\u2019n gorfod sbio yn y dyddiadur a gwasgu ymweliad gan fy rhieni mewn rywsut – sydd yn hollol hurt!<\/p>\n

\u201cMae cadw mewn cysylltiad efo cymdogion yn bwysig hefyd, tyda ni byth yn gwbod sut mae rhywun yn teimlo go iawn, felly ma just holi sut mae rywun yn gallu g\u2019neud i rywun deimlo nad ydi nhw ar ben ei hunain, mae unigrwydd yn ofnadwy.\u00a0\u2018Dw i\u00a0\u2018di creu grwp whatsapp efo ffrindiau sydd efo plant a mi yda ni\u2019n postio ar hwnnw os yda ni\u2019n cael diwrnod anodd efo\u2019r plant er mwyn cael hyg ddigidol!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Rural Communities in Lockdown<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Rural communities have seen isolation reach a new level with the added boarder and 5-mile travel ban.<\/p>\n

With some families living so remote that they must travel over the guideline of \u20185 miles\u2019 to get such things as groceries, the lockdown has remained incredibly isolated even after some rules relaxed in England and Wales this month.<\/p>\n

However, Kristina voiced,<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s hard for me to speak for all Welsh communities but I can say personally I am very glad that Wales are taking their own steps to keep the nation safe. I feel like we as a country are proud of our government for taking different measures, and feel that the Welsh communities are all doing what they can to help each other until we get to a safer time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have found living in a rural area has most certainly been of benefit to me, having a lot of space to exercise in, and the feeling of isolation has been considerably less due to having the sea and mountains to look at during my daily walk. We all know just how lucky we are to be living in this corner of the world!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMai\u2019n anodd i mi ateb dros gymunedau gwledig Cymru, ond mi fedra i ddeud fy mod i\u2019n falch iawn bod Cymru wedi rhoi polisiau ei hunan mewn lle i\u2019n cadw ni\u2019n ddiogel. Mi ddyla ni fod yn falch o\u2019n llywodraeth am beidio a dilyn arweiniad Lloegr. Dyla ni fod yn falch o\u2019n cymunedau am neud bob dim y gallen nhw i helpu bawb nes bod y cyfnod yma\u2019n dod i ben.<\/p>\n

\u201cYn bersonol mae byw mewn ardal gwledig yn golygu fy mod i\u00a0\u2018di cael digon o le i ymarfer corff, ac mae\u2019r teimlad ynysig yn llai oherwydd fy mod i\u2019n gal gweld y m\u00f4r a\u2019r mynyddoedd wrth gerdded yn lleol. Ma\u2019\u00a0pawb yn gwbod pa mor lwcus yda ni i gal byw mewn ardal mor brydferth!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looking back: an interview with rural photographer, Kristina Banholzer on the chance to document Welsh communities during the lockdown.<\/p>\n

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