Launched at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Instagram platform is a collection of images that illustrates the complexities – and the everyday realities – of motherhood during unprecedented times

Launched at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Instagram platform is a collection of images that illustrates the complexities – and the everyday realities – of motherhood during unprecedented times
Chekachkov is working in Lviv as a fixer, helping the international press document the crisis. As the war between Ukraine and Russia prevails, the photographer reflects on the shifting state of identity
In the tense weeks leading up to the 2020 US presidential election, Cole photographed his kitchen while reflecting the construction of image-making and sharing today
Growing up in Australia, Kumar was dismissive of her Indian heritage. ‘Ghar’ and ‘Nagar’ – meaning ‘home’ and ‘town’ in Hindi – are part of her ongoing efforts to re-discover her “Indianness”, as she puts it
Empty Nest is a delicate telling of the changing roles and relations in a family influenced by China’s one-child policy
Consumerism and imperialism have long been explored and visualised in photography. Indeed, images themselves are a commodity that perpetuate the cycle. But with the dawn of the internet and new technologies, the heightened awareness of the climate crisis, intersectional thought and need for decolonisation, photography’s relationship to capitalism is being reexamined.
When Alba Zari was four years old, she fled the Children of God cult with her mother and grandmother. Now, after many years, the artist is seeking answers about her family’s past in an attempt to understand the controversial sect that recruited them
Bolongaro collaborates with his wife and two children on his first book, Gravity Begins at Home
After living in the city since the 80s, Plumb’s new book gathers snapshots of walks around the neighbourhood as she grappled with the unsettling disillusionment and shortcomings of the social landscape
The home has inspired myriad artists. Be it documenting their family, themselves, their surroundings or something more abstract, photographers have revealed some of the most intimate elements of their personal lives against this backdrop.
“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned,” Maya Angelou wrote in her book, All God’s Children Need Travelling Shoes. For many artists, the search for home is ongoing.
For others, the space is synonymous with togetherness and identity. “Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition,” wrote James Baldwin. Like Baldwin, many live in exile, away from their family, country and safety. Over the lockdown of the Covid-19 pandemic, the idea of home took on a new meaning – at once a place of protection, and confinement and isolation. But no matter who, where or what home is to you, there is no place like it.