In this second interview, Lilián Guerrero talks to Rebecca Weston about the differences between "selfies" and "self-portrait," trying to image the acute anguish of being a bystander to the suffering we cannot see, the meditative and non-meditative qualities of self-portraiture, the ways in which confinement can feel both protective or restrictive, a source of escape or a trap. Finally, to the extent that Lilián’s images offer ways to sit with and tolerate the negative feelings of this pandemic, they prepare us to empathize with others as we slowly emerge out of our homes.

Lilián Guerrero is a full-time university professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and a hobbyist street photographer. She lives in Querétaro, México. She has taken some workshops on photography and has participated in a few collective expositions in Mexico. She is a member of the 24hourproject Documenting Humanity and is also a member of Photographers Under Confinement: Engaging the Pandemic Around the World.

Rebecca B. Weston is a photographer and clinical social worker, living in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York - a suburb of New York City. She has had work published in curated, collaborative Street Photography Books and has exhibited both in solo and curated group shows. She is also the founder of the Facebook group, Photographers Under Confinement: Engaging Corona Around the World.

The aim of this project is to explore the ways in which specific photographers have used photography and image making to express their feelings about and individual experiences of the pandemic, to connect and be seen in their isolation by others around the world, to honor their shared humanity and to preserve their own mental health.