HOME IS WHERE ONE BEGINS (2010-Ongoing) is a meditation on how men I’ve encountered through personal and online connections create spaces for themselves that are extensions of their individual or partnered identities, literally and figuratively. In what ways do these men shape the environments they create for themselves and how do these spaces, in turn, shape them? How are the idiosyncrasies of each individual embodied in their home? How does the notion of home draw out the humanity and familiarity of each of these men?
Home is where one begins draws from the aesthetics of cinematic framing and a Northern European painting tradition that elevates the quotidian and its attention to detail within pictorial space. Within the photographic frame, the home becomes a kind of domestic stage: each man a player in a sublime drama of the mundane and transgressive.
The home as a haven takes on new resonance vis-à-vis the pandemic, bringing into sharper focus the dangers to personal health and safety, the reality of isolation, and the desire for human connection in these fraught times.
Featured here are selections from the ongoing portrait series.