Photo Series- Home Safe Home

Home Safe Home

When I created this photo series I wanted to pursue almost nurture vs. nature or even human vs. nature; I did this by photographing interiors and exteriors of two very different types of houses. The nurture vs. nature aspect comes from how a house can become a home and also how a house can resign to nature itself. Where I live there is a street full of abandoned houses. The houses have been abandoned for months now and are starting to blend back into nature. These houses to me have a stoic, statue like behavior. There is no security or comfort being displayed. When I was taking images of these houses I felt unwelcomed, impatient, and uncomfortable. The nurture or human aspect I conveyed by taking images of my own home and recording the human existence with in its walls. I chose to focus a lot on images that seemed to mirror the abandoned houses well.  I wanted my home to convey comfort by how the house looked somewhat cluttered. To me, clutter means comfort. I feel as though clutter is a visualization of life. My home has a feeling of existence that the abandoned houses did not. I wanted to keep most of my pictures in a warm tonal color. I also really liked playing with depth of field in this series, especially with the walls. Both sets of images have a lot of warm tones but in the abandoned set there was a lot more rough texture. The rough textures being displayed inhabit the idea of unsafe, raw and somewhat dangerous feeling to the surroundings. I wanted to make sure that the houses were completely empty of people to not distract viewers from the main focus of the dualism and contrast between the houses.