I think masks are a thing now. Like on the morning news we might hear “it’s going to be a mask day folks”.
Make a hammock for your pet hamster 🙂
In January this year, I was planning out a photo shoot involving masks. This is what I wrote up at the time:
I mostly take photos of things. Streets, buildings, creatures. In part, it’s because I like to take photos at strange angles, and people aren’t always flattered by odd perspective shots. I really need to step into more portrait photography though, but I don’t want to be boring. So, I have an idea of taking a series of photos of people wearing various breathing masks. A surgical mask, a plague doctor’s mask, a Soviet gas mask. Some of the photos would be people going about their daily routines, but wearing a mask.
Concept one: Family photo: each member of the family is wearing a different type of these masks, with one family member only having their hand over their mouth and nose. While most of the family looks posed and artificially happy like a standard family photo, the one with the hand covering looks alarmed.
Concept two: Two players at a chess board wearing gas masks. In place of the Queens, there are incense holders with lit incense, smoke wafting up among the players.
Concept three: Office scene: Someone is stapling papers in a copy room wearing a plague mask. Someone with no mask is chatting with this person as if nothing is amiss.
Concept four: A woman wearing a surgical mask, preparing to put on lipstick in a mirror.
Concept five: Two people with narrowed eyes sit at a table with a gasmask in the center. Both are covering their noses and mouth by holding a shirt or sweater over it with one hand. With the other hand, they are playing rock, paper, scissors.
I’m sure that I’ll come up with more, but if I start posting these photos without an explanation, it’s probably enough to distress my friends and family.
The next use is already here. See example: rioters in Minnesota.