Picturing Home


  • Photographer
    Edgar Kim
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    June 2014
  • Technical Info
    c41/inkjet print/19"x19"

People leave the place they grew up in to make a new home. The childhood home doesn't feel the same as it was, while the new home doesn't fully satisfy the emotional and physical connection. I attempt to fill the insufficiency of my dwelling space with ready-made images of home and objects of personal and collective memories. The photograph addresses the qualities of home that cannot be quickly made or found, depicting the inevitable futility of reproducing the image of home we have in our mind. In this photograph, I convey the idea that a façade cannot make a home.

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