MISSION

I’ve been to properties with notices up since 1998, walked though gates with layers of cobwebs, into homes with what is left behind – the day a family & children were evicted, the day the owners ran out of funds to complete construction, the day the owner died and the family neglected to clear the home of the deceased’s belongings. I’ve captured a home 15 years forgotten & surrounded by mansions; held my breath in a house that is a historical site, splattered with feces & opened a never ending sea of unlocked doors. While living in one of the largest cites in the world, I have witnessed what others have built with their own hand, garbage piece by garbage piece. I’ve loitered around areas to meet people & hear stories about how they have ended up taking over an abandoned home; picked up a nomad & her fishing pole to visit her train station house & met a woman who built her home from found objects around the base of a tree.

Our World Insideout was born from my young home life that was raw, violent & steeped in displacement and abandonment. The catalyst of this life-long project started with documenting my own abandoned home in 2004, from the inside. Then in 2009, during the economic crash, I found a relation to the familiar emotion of loss & I started documenting other’s homes. I created the imagery with the hope that this project will incite a visual, global dialog concerning the used & unused resources; thus inspiring change. It touches on the many levels of humanity & one of the most sacred places for us : home.

Insideout is one word - There is no delineation between what happens behind closed doors and what is translated to the outside world.

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