The home as dwelling is a place for renewal, retreat and dreaming. It conveys personal values, histories and relationships as well as our daily routines, and holds a tension between past and future ways of conducting our lives.

The home as dwelling is a place for renewal, retreat and dreaming. It conveys personal values, histories and relationships as well as our daily routines, and holds a tension between past and future ways of conducting our lives.

To dwell is to not only pay attention to physical and familial matters, but also to consider and reflect on the wider world. On the cusp between private and public arenas, local and global influences, our place of dwelling is a subtle marker of space and time.

- Janet Bayly 2009

 A photographic portrait taken in the home is about self-preservation, the physical testament to an individual’s tentative existence – a life lived.

The visual memory harnessed to light-sensitive paper is as temporal as the moment of photographic conception.  It is of curious parentage, conceived as an enduring memento while simultaneously informed by and formed through a subliminal history of viewing.
The captured exist in an attempt to quantify our loss.

- Nikolai Kokx 2009