Being Home,
Black and White Digital Photographic Series, 2021

Being Home is a photographic series that explores the intimate realities of life in a home shaped by elderly care and disability. The images act as thresholds, glimpses into a usually hidden domestic setting and into the invisible labour of caregiving.

The aids are photographed empty. They are vital extensions of the body, and I think of them as portraits. They hold the posture of the bodies they support, and of the hands that lift and wait. Each image shows where a person has just been, is about to be, or has been, blurring the line between object and body, presence and absence.

Care is private, repeated daily and rarely witnessed. These images of unseen architecture show a home that is both refuge and place of accessibility, a space of belonging, intimacy, resilience and loss.