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Jon Devo looks at how you can take photos around the world without leaving your home
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These images were captured remotely by Sveta Chekhlataya, using The Shutter App.
T he pandemic has caused a tectonic rift in the way many of us live and work. But there’s one thing that’s often true of hardship; art and creativity tend to thrive in the wake of adversity.
Here in the UK, a national lockdown was announced on 23 March, 2020. But a few thousand miles away in Italy, where national lockdown had already been imposed, a photographer had uploaded possibly the first-ever set of images from a ‘remote photoshoot’ to social media. Confined to his home, Alessio Albi unwittingly became one of the early pioneers of remote photography when he decided to collaborate with a model 200km away using FaceTime on an iPhone.