She’s a regular Annie Never-Leaves-owitz.
Three Brooklyn roommates are battling the coronavirus-lockdown doldrums with elaborately staged photo shoots inspired by nostalgic TV shows, silly costumes and classical art. The joyful pics, which poke fun at collective guilty pleasures in quarantine, such as junk food and wine, are making viewers’ days.
And for the photographer behind the lens, they’re also making the time go by faster.
“We feel happier after we do a shoot,” Liz Devine, 38, a lifestyle and travel photographer who lives in a Ditmas Park three-bedroom, tells The Post.
She adds that she’s treating the whimsical portraits “like a job.”
“When we first started doing photo shoots, we thought it would be a fun, two-week project,” Devine says. “But every day the news gets worse and worse, especially in New York. We wanted to do something light and funny to take everyone’s mind off of it.”
She decided to order a tripod and establish a COVID-19 studio with her roommates, Marybeth Diss and Annie Wilkins.
The three women have gone all-out in re-creating the look of shows like “The Price Is Right” and Netflix’s hit “Tiger King,” plus intricately staged scenes. One photo shows them enjoying a movie night with puppet boyfriends, and posting the final product on Instagram for devoted fans.
They’re a few of the cooped-up creatives turning to elaborate photo shoots to kill time and spread some joy. The Metropolitan Museum launched the hashtag #MetTwinning months before the pandemic, but the catchy concept has seen a renaissance, with crafty art lovers — think pillowcases to re-create the masked kiss in René Magritte’s “The Lovers II” — joining the fun.
Likewise, the Getty Museum — the LA institution that closed its doors on March 14 — has challenged former patrons “to recreate a work of art with objects (and people) in your home” via Twitter.
Still, Devine and her roommates have curated their own Instagram museum.
“Watch out MOMA, here comes COVID-19 Studio,” writes one commenter on Devine’s re-creation of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’ “Grande Odalisque.”
This rendition, “in the time of quarantine,” according to the caption, features gray sweatpants, wine through a straw and Cool Ranch Doritos.
“I’ve always loved the painting,” Devine tells The Post. “I thought we could play it up and make it funny.”
The trio have known one another for six years and have lived under the same roof for the past two. They say they’ve found catharsis in staging a quarantine dinner party with Girl Scout cookies, plenty of booze and yes, Doritos.
“We were doing fake toasts to things we wanted to do out of quarantine, and fake crying,” Devine says. “It was almost therapeutic.”
Another favorite photo: a denim-inspired tableau. “I woke up and thought, ‘I want to make a backdrop of all my jeans,’ and I crafted it all day,” says Devine, who adds that her chief concern about her high-resolution, lowbrow shoots is that everyone feels like they’re having fun and getting creative.
The Insta-famous denim photo shoot.Liz Devine“I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be fun to make fake boyfriends and hang out with them on the couch?’ ” she says. “Annie came up with the idea to have their heads be balloons, and I thought, ‘Oh my God yes, that’s so stupid.’ ”
The project will continue as long as they’re stuck inside, assures Devine. “We can’t stop,” she says. “If we’re the only bright part of people’s day, we’ve got to keep going.”
