After a two-year hiatus as a result of covid pandemic, Elizabeth Bick returns to the Pantheon in 2022 for her undertaking Each God.
The New York-based photographer Elizabeth Bick has returned to Rome’s Pantheon on 21 June, the longest day of the 12 months, to {photograph} the vacationers visiting the traditional monument.Bick depicts her topics in theatrical poses, making dramatic use of chiaroscuro, because the Pantheon’s guests gaze upwards in awe on the oculus.Her pictures are a part of a undertaking titled Each God, which started when Bick was a resident artist on the American Academy in Rome in the summertime of 2014.Bick says she selected the summer season solstice to reap the benefits of the sunshine falling on guests – of various ages, cultures, races and genders – in addition to permitting her to doc “our relationship to know-how because it quickly adjustments.”Bick’s pictures for Each God may be seen on her web site.
All pictures Elizabeth Bick.