The Rise of the FaceTime Celebrity, Fashion Shoot

Quarantine hasn’t stopped Demi Lovato from creating. After shooting her new Harper’s Bazaar cover with Alexi Lubomirski pre-lockdown in February, the singer recently teamed with Los Angeles-based photographer Angelo Kritikos for a very different type of shoot. Unlike the Bazaar production, which would have involved a small army of stylists, hair and makeup professionals, editors and assistants, this one included just two people and took place over FaceTime. “A few days into the stay home order, I texted Demi my virtual shoot idea and we executed it the next day. We wanted to inspire people to stay home and get creative. Nothing will stop us from creating together,” said Kritikos in an e-mail. In the mix of color, black-and-white and double-processed images posted on Instagram and TikTok, Lovato strikes a series of poses in a casual graphic back T-shirt paired with large gold hoop earrings. “I don’t feel any pressure to perfect my virtual shoots because I really love the gritty and raw feel to the images. To me, it’s cool how imperfect the photos turn out,” added Kritikos. “Even though we are not physically in the same space shooting, there is something about the virtual shoots that feel very intimate and vulnerable. There is only

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