Amidst the current sea of COVID-19-related social media posts, memes, news articles and TikToks, 26-year-old photographer Rania Shereen offers us a refreshingly different perspective on quarantine as she invites us into this intimate photo series featuring her nephews. In these lively photos, we are reminded of life beyond quarantine – by shifting her lens to focus on the varied imaginative ways children make the most of their natural surroundings, Shereen reminds us of both the beauty of youth and of simply living. “It was the only light thing that has been happening since the beginning of the virus,” explains Shereen as to why she chose to start photographing her nephews. “I’ve always wanted to photograph them while they’re living in nature; I believe if affects how they play and how they perceive things, and I like to photograph humans in nature in general,” she continues. Five-year-old Farid and nine-year-old Fares may not yet fully grasp what is happening in the world around them, and perhaps it is not necessary for them to fully grasp the extremity of the situation, so long as they get to enjoy the simple pleasures of…
Child’s Play: One Photographer’s Intimate Documentation of Her Nephews in Quarantine
April 17, 2020
