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HOME is a portrait series of people who are displaced or in migration; involuntarily or forcibly; temporarily or permanently. The focus of HOME is the concept of home. Where do we feel at home? What makes it home? Is it a single place, or multiple ones? Is it even a place, or is it a sound, a smell, a relationship, a belief?

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The central point of HOME is food and music - the weightless luggage that everyone travels with: food or drink recipes, memories of smells and tastes or memories triggered by them; lullabies, working songs, drinking songs, love songs, break up songs, prayers… They can transform an alien, hostile place into a slightly more homely and familiar one. Or can they? Maybe it’s the opposite. Maybe they remind us of things we’d rather forget. Maybe what makes a new place attractive and bearable are the new sounds, the new tastes and smells.

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The fundamental purpose of HOME is to give a positive and personal voice to people who too often get generalised into terms like “migrants” or “refugees”. The goal is to relate personal stories as told by each individual person. Every participant is invited to define themselves by their own music and food choices and the memories and feelings attached to them. HOME doesn’t define people by their journey, their immigration status or trauma, instead, by their own words, their faces, their expressions and the songs, dishes and stories they shared. In some ways HOME intents to portray a common denominator of humanity: how everyone can find personal connections through food and music.

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HOME is divided in three elements: 

1. A recorded conversation with the participant. 

2. A photographic portrait of them.

3. A dish and a piece of music that gives the participant a sense of home.

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The sum creates a portrait of a person and their journey and provides a glimpse into the participant's own culture.

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