Every area is, at its core, a collection of private worlds. Behind front doors left ajar or firmly shut, people are living - eating, reading, arguing, dreaming, loving.
These interiors absorb our habits, our histories, our contradictions. They are, in the most literal sense, where we become who we are.
This project is made in the homes of the people. Shot on location - in kitchens, living rooms, backyards, bedrooms - these photographs are not styled or staged. They are quiet observations of life as it is actually lived.
The project is rooted in a simple impulse: to pay attention.
To slow down long enough to ask someone who are you, and what does this place mean to you? Some have lived on the same street for 40 years. Others arrived last week. Some were born here. Others travelled across the world.
What the photographs seek is the common thread of inhabitation, of making a place your own, of being somewhere and meaning it.
This is also, honestly, a personal gesture. I live here too. I walk these streets everyday, I talk with you. Making this work is my way of being present. Leaving something behind. A record. A testimony that we were here, in this moment, in this light.
Hopefully the body of work will become a book, an exhibition, a social archive.
Each person photographed receives a print.
