Un-Home

I've just finished a new, short zine, for which I set myself the challenge of completing all the work in seven days: taking the photographs, selecting and editing them, and laying out the zine. The title, Un-Home, alludes to Freud’s famous essay on the uncanny, in which he suggests that both ‘homely’ and ‘unhomely’ are possible synonyms for this word. The images here don’t fit the notion of the uncanny as it is generally understood or experienced, but they are literally homely or unhomely. 

The ‘home’ images were all taken inside my flat on a 28mm lens; the ‘unhome’ images were all taken outside but nearby on a 50mm lens. I used on-camera flash for everything, although this is more obvious on some images than on others. 

Photographs can be divided into three categories: they depict people, places or things. I mostly photograph places; or, more rarely, people. By contrast, these photographs are mostly of things, although some of them have enough context to also qualify as depictions of places.