You create a sense of home in your pictures: friendly faces, comfortable spaces, Christmas lights, food— is that something you intended to do or do the circumstances just sort of dictate it? It’s a bit of both. Sense of home and the idea of home is something I’m very interested in and have been focusing on for awhile. It’s fascinating to observe with the way others create a home whether it be a physical, material, and spatial creation, something more abstract like finding home in a specific moment, or something more emotional: something found within other people they surround themselves with. Often it’s a combination. It’s fascinating to observe myself doing it in relation to what I’ve learned by looking at others, and part of the way I do that is to photograph it. It’s like the way a painter will step back from their painting to observe. It’s actually funny you ask this question... I’m working on my second photography book right now and it’s titled “Homebody”.
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