When photographer Eric Kelley first began documenting weddings backing 2004, he says here was huge push toward photojournalism. “Then with the re-emergence of film, we saw a movement back to a more fine-art look,” he explains. The images we (my wife Lora and I) have taken during this season have been a blend of both looks. Most of what we are documenting is our everyday life, especially while staying safe and isolating at home during the COVID-19 pandemic.” It’s been, he says, an interesting way to create storytelling narratives with depth and layers.

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Weddings jobs are pretty much cancelled or postponed for now, so while at home, Eric and Lora (who has a blog called Storied Living where you can find many of the images from this project, documented by the numbered days of their isolation) have had a lot of fun “shooting off the hip, looking for the emotion and not necessarily trying to make the content look lifestyle, magazine-worthy or curated [as they would with hired jobs]. Given where we are in world history, it felt disingenuous to do anything but just capture us as we are.”

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And to help tell the story of who they and their three children— Henry, Della and Bette—are as a family, they used the Fuji XT3 and Fuji GFX 50R, which Fuji graciously gave him to experiment with.

“They provide a dreamy creamy and authentic look to all of the images,” says Eric. “I use presets to edit them and give them a bit more of a film look. I like how clear and crisp the images are while still having a softness to them that feels other-worldly, [like the image of Lora, shown here from Day 3 of being at home, feeding the most recent addition to the Kelley family]. We’re using a combination of 60mm and 110mm, as well as the Contax 80mm and 35mm, lenses.”

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