My Own Kind of Home is a series about people and the spaces that hold them — sometimes built, sometimes borrowed, sometimes falling apart. Each photograph sits somewhere between portrait and place study, presenting the subject in spaces that reflect their ideal state of being. These environments — garages, riversides, apartments, stages, vans, or fields — carry traces of who we are. They hold memory, work, love, struggle, and the subtle, psychological shapes of identity.
Through these portraits, I explore how people claim space — how they decorate it with who they are, or how it decorates them in return. A garage can become a battleground, a bathroom a stage, a field a refuge, a van a whole world on wheels. The images are complemented by the stories that accompany them, revealing the emotional and metaphysical landscapes that make a place feel like home.
In the end, My Own Kind of Home is about the emotional architecture of belonging — the ways we inhabit our worlds and the traces we leave behind as we move through them, despite hardship and struggle.
Some of the names of the portrait subjects have been altered at their request for anonymity.
To read the individual stories behind each image, please view the flippable PDF of the series here. If you are using a mobile device, I recommend turning it to landscape for the best viewing experience.