home away from home

home away from home is a photographic series born from my own experience of trying to build a sense of home while studying somewhere new, and from wanting to lean on photography as a way to build community while I built that new home for myself. It invites viewers into intimate encounters with individuals navigating the emotional terrain of migration and temporary dwelling, exploring what home means when distance, circumstance, or opportunity requires us to leave, and what new forms home can take when we arrive somewhere unfamiliar.

At its core, this is a meditation on the people who carry home with them. I created this work during my time studying in London, and it grew out of a desire to build community with fellow students living far from the places that shaped them. I was drawn to the subtle ways people transformed temporary rooms into sanctuaries, so I began documenting not just the spaces themselves, but the lives unfolding within them: family photographs pinned to walls, inherited objects carried across continents, cherished textiles, and personal rituals, all evidence of home persisting beyond geography.

Through soft, stark black-and-white analog photography, I invite you to sit with these storied lives, in the grounding spaces we've shaped with memory and comfort. But above the materiality, what connected me to each person's resting place was their own face, faces that resembled the generations of people who brought those students before my camera. This series is my way of offering a window into what it means to migrate to a new place, and a reminder of how powerful it is to share our stories, for reflection, comfort, and recognition.

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