Dining Alone: In the Company of Solitude highlights the experience of being alone in public. Photographer Nancy A. Scherl chose to photograph lone diners, in peopled restaurant interiors as a metaphor to explore the complexities of the subject of solitude. The subtle nuances of the lone diners visually define their experience.
Dining Alone is a long-term project spanning three decades, culminating in 2020 with photographs taken during the COVID-19 pandemic when restaurants moved their diners to makeshift structures outdoors to avoid contagion. The humanistic photographs shine a light on the existential and complex aspects of dining alone which have been thrown into sharp relief by COVID-19.
Dining Alone: In the Company of Solitude highlights the experience of being alone in public. Photographer Nancy A. Scherl chose to photograph lone diners, in peopled restaurant interiors as a metaphor to explore the complexities of the subject of solitude. The subtle nuances of the lone diners visually define their experience.
Dining Alone is a long-term project spanning three decades, culminating in 2020 with photographs taken during the COVID-19 pandemic when restaurants moved their diners to makeshift structures outdoors to avoid contagion. The humanistic photographs shine a light on the existential and complex aspects of dining alone which have been thrown into sharp relief by COVID-19.