Jesse Dittmar was recently hired by The Washington Post to photograph 16-year-old TikTok star Charli D`Amelio in her parent`s backyard.
All photographs by Jesse Dittmar
Jesse Dittmar has been photographing high-profile celebrities since late 2013. He`s used to photographing the big names on short notice with a limited time-frame for publications like The Washington Post and The New York Times, but when COVID-19 hit, his typically busy shooting schedule dried up quickly.
Ordinarily, celebrity photoshoots require travel and large teams working together in extremely close quarters. In the month`s since COVID-19 has swept through the world, we`ve seen magazine`s like Essence and GQ asking stars to photograph themselves for features in the publications. Luckily for photographers like Dittmar, the celebrity selfie doesn`t seem like it will become the new normal in the photo world.
Dittmar photographs big names on short notice for publications like the Washington Post and the New York Times
The Washington Post recently commissioned Dittmar to photograph Charli D`Amelio – a 16-year old from Norwalk, Connecticut with over 60 million TikTok followers. She is one of the rulers of the social media platform, which she uses to share short-form videos of herself dancing in her home, lip-syncing to her family`s dogs and more recently using her influencer status to urge teenagers to stay at home during the global pandemic.
We caught up with Dittmar to learn more about his photoshoot with D`Amelio, his experience shooting in the era of COVID-19 and what he thinks celebrity shoots will be like moving forward.
This was your first shoot since COVID-19 hit the states, how did the opportunity come about?
The first shoot of the COVID-era happened earlier than I was expecting, to be honest. I thought it would be well into the summer before I was going to get that first call, but I got an email out of the blue, like I normally do. The photo e ...
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