| Summary: | From March 2020 to May 2021, several lockdowns have modified field access for anthropologists observing professional spaces. If professional work was rather slowed down than fully suspended, the amount of people in working spaces was regulated by sanitary measures. I was only able to carry on my ethnographic fieldwork in leather workshops by observing a young Parisian brand that received me in one of the two co-founders’ flat, where both had set their workshop. The participant observation of private life and professional work in this hybrid space raises the following question : is there a border isolating personal life from work ? Working at home is both faithful to the historic tradition of crafts and illustrates new forms of professional activity as reshaped by Internet since the 1990’es.By trying to overcome the hurdle of identifying what belongs to work and what belongs to private life, a visual anthropology’s method has been set. Using pictures (drawings based on photographs) and texts, a hybrid format close to comics has been adopted. Working on the layer boards gather the visual notes taken during the field study, the analysis of the data and is used to return the ethnographic survey.
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