At the very height of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, when everyone was either planting vegetables or baking pan de sal, the purveyors of style at fashion website Seek the Uniq called up to ask me if they could feature my home. The catch: because of the lockdown, I had to shoot and style it myself!
Now I found this nerve-wracking at first, because after producing home shoots for more than 18 years, I was used to having a photographer and assistant, two stylists, and a writer on board at every shoot. And my home is terribly small and modest, just filled with all my secondhand finds and old family furniture. But Seek the Uniq consultant Vicky Marschadesch calmed me down and told me to treat it as a fun project, so I did.
I shot my home over the period of four days in 95-degree-heat (I had to hide all the clutter, and style each space around the activities of my young son!) using just my Huawei mobile phone on interiors setting mode, and perched it on a small tripod that I bought off the sidewalk (malls were still closed at that time). All rooms were shot in natural light. I’ll show a few of the images here, but if you want to see the rest, along with my interview, read the article here.
To see more of the Stay-at-Home tours of Seek the Uniq, visit their website.
Rachelle Medina 