Every house has a story. Some remembered, some imagined.
These photographs began with an interest in the stories contained within domestic spaces, not simply the stories people tell about their lives, but those revealed unintentionally by the rooms they inhabit.
The photographs ask the viewer to look before judging. A motorbike raised on a pole, a child’s playpen, a family photograph, a sink filled with dishes, a room without running water: these things become evidence. Sometimes I know the story behind what appears in a photograph. Sometimes I do not. In either case, the viewer is invited to imagine.
My control over these photographs was limited. I placed the panoramic camera in the room, asked everyone to remain still, and stepped away. The camera recorded the space around itself in 360 degrees. Often I did not fully know what had been photographed until the separate exposures were assembled later.
The camera created the picture. I only assisted the camera.
That process matters. There is no conventional “behind the camera” in these photographs. What would ordinarily exist outside the frame remains part of the image. The viewer can look toward the subject, away from the subject, above, behind, or into another part of the room.
The panoramic photographs presented here are therefore only one way of looking.
In the original 360-degree environments, the viewer is free to investigate the room—to discover objects, relationships, and traces of lives that I may not have selected or even noticed myself.
Some photographs are accompanied by stories. Others are left without explanation. The stories are not intended to tell the viewer what to think. They add another dimension to what is already visible and sometimes reveal how incomplete our first assumptions can be.
The camera records. The people reveal. The viewer imagines.
The photograph presents a selected view. The 360-degree environment restores what lies beyond its boundaries. The viewer can turn away from the selected composition, look above and behind, and discover the room independently.