Working title: What Is Home?
Understanding Home: What does home look like and what does it mean?
The project will take on a detailed and intimate approach to what people call home and what home means to them. Through a documentary style, I will create visual stories with people, exploring and understanding the concept of home. Documenting what home looks like might answer what home means.
Relevance:
This body of work is going to hold social and economic relevance, due to the obvious and dramatic separation between wealth and deprivation. The project will highlight vulnerable groups, using photography to advocate for themselves and to tell their stories. I will highlight people’s voices by being an objective image maker. The exploration of what home means expands beyond the confinement of a house.
Audience:
The project attracts any and all types of audiences. The images will aid as a tool for understanding people with unique situations. The stories will bring people together by questioning what home looks like and what it means.
Time-frame:
I will find 10 people/families from different demographics. A relationship will be built so that a compelling visual story can be crafted based on the individual's perception of what home is. This project could span over a year, allowing time to find a group of willing people and then to build a relationship with them.
Personal connection and inspiration:
Growing up witnessing domestic abuse, then watching my family break and my mum struggle, I built a fragile relationship with home. We never stayed anywhere long enough to call a house, a home. Ever since I picked up a camera, I’ve been trying to understand what home means. I believe that through life and my experiences, I have become my own home. I have struggled to understand what home means for a long time, I am curious to learn how others connect to home.
Visual Inspiration:
Jim Mortorm: Small Town Inertia. [qa-j-a-mortram-on-his-ten-year-project-small-town-inertia]
James Mollison: Where Children Sleep. [where-children-sleep-8gg6y]
Susan Kandel: At Home. [susan-kandel-at-home-photography-130421]
Alec South: Walks To Work. [https://www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture/society-arts-culture/alec-soth-walks-to-work/]