Reading Time: 3 minutes 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

Reading Time: 3 minutes 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
Reading Time: 3 minutes Empty Nest is a delicate telling of the changing roles and relations in a family influenced by China’s one-child policy
Reading Time: 8 minutes 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.
Reading Time: 5 minutes 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
Reading Time: 3 minutes Bolongaro collaborates with his wife and two children on his first book, Gravity Begins at Home
Reading Time: 5 minutes 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
Reading Time: 2 minutes For the two years before his death in 2005, Chloe Sells worked as personal assistant to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas author, Thompson. Her new book introduces us to his inner sanctum in Woody Creek, Colorado
Reading Time: 5 minutes As his landmark retrospective at Bristol’s Arnolfini gallery closes this weekend, Gill reflects on his prolific career
Reading Time: 5 minutes His new 756-page book explores a home in a remote Japanese village that may soon be gone
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.