Olivia Arthur Olivia Arthur was expecting her second daughter when she was invited to take part in this project. Her series of intimate black and white portraits, a delicate and timeless family album, offers a b (...)
eautiful insight into the emotional complexity of motherhood, as well as sisterhood. “Photographing this period of anticipation became somewhat cathartic. As I rushed to finish various other work to clear my time for the months to come, I was happy to also spend time recording and reflecting on this last period that we would be a family of three.“ London. England. 2017. © Olivia Arthur | Magnum Photos
Alex Majoli For Alex Majoli, “home” was a surprisingly difficult theme to explore. Because there have been more than a few places that he called home, and, perhaps more importantly, because he is used to focus (...)
ing on the lives of others, not his own. In response to this inherently introspective subject matter, he chose to document his home in Sicily in various ways. Scicli, Italy. 2017. © Alex Majoli | Magnum Photos
Chien-Chi Chang Chien-Chi Chang returned to New York’s Chinatown, where he lived for many years and still considers home. He photographed the streets, the buildings, and mostly, the people of Chinatown, as a form (...)
of self-portrait: “Immigration is propelled by suffering. To witness the shifting patterns of populations is to see the world in all its exigencies: war, natural disasters, repression, famine and poverty. But there is a rainbow at the bottom of that Pandora’s box of troubles. Hope, too, propels immigrants to settle in strange lands. I should know: I am one myself.” New York City. USA, 2017. © Chien-Chi Chang | Magnum Photos
Thomas Dworzak Thomas Dworzak’s father walks the fields above the village where his family had a farm until 1946. “Growing up in a small Bavarian town near the Iron Curtain called Cham, as the son of a father who (...)
was deported from Czechoslovakia, all I wanted to do was get out of what I felt to be an unbearably stifling world of Catholicism, provincialism, order and calm. And guilt. Leave. Experience the absolute opposite. War.”
Village Hrabišin – Rabersdorf. Moravia. Šumperk / Mährisch Schönberg. Czech Republic. September 2017. © Thomas Dworzak | Magnum Photos
David Alan Harvey After watching the solar eclipse atop Jockey's Ridge State Park. David Alan Harvey chose to spend time in Northern Carolina, his happy place, where he now lives —
close to where he grew up. “I sl (...)
id back into childlike sentimentality. No artifice. Surfers, sunlight, and lightness of being.” Outer Banks, North Carolina, USA. 2017. © David Alan Harvey | Magnum Photos
Mark Power Mark Power was invited to take part in this project as his beloved daughter Chilli was leaving their home in Brighton to go study in London. “Any parent who has been through this traumatic event wi (...)
ll surely recognize how confused emotions become, and how deep they run.” England, Great Britain. 2017. © Mark Power | Magnum Photos
Gueorgui Pinkhassov The photographer's home. “My parents lived here. Our relatives came to visit. And our neighbors. This is a place of my childhood and my youth …This is my home. The crossroads of my memory.” Using l (...)
ight and colors like a painter would, Gueorgui Pinkassov composed a subtle and poetic documentation of his Moscow apartment. Sublime and subliminal, his series is a masterful tribute to his mentor Andrei Tarkovsky. 2017. © Gueorgui Pinkhassov | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman “I should know where I come from.” For this project, Moises Saman chose to go back to the place he was born but did not know: Peru. The road trip that ensued was as physical as it was emotional. Hi (...)
s photographs are the reflection of his psychologically-charged journey: discovering one’s land, discovering one’s people, finding a home. Iquitos, Peru. September, 2017. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Antoine d’Agata For Antoine d’Agata, going home was a “journey into the heart of darkness.” Walking from Les-Saintes-Maries to Marseille, he went through a physical and emotional ordeal revisiting his devout child (...)
hood, as if on a pilgrimage. Baie des Singes, Marseilles. September 2017. © Antoine d’Agata | Magnum Photos
Trent Parke To Trent Parke, home meant the city he lives in, at a very specific time of day. With this striking series of painting-like photographs, he pays tribute to the Australian painter Jeffrey Smart and (...)
to their hometown: Adelaide. “Like Mr. Smart, it’s the last half hour of sunlight that interests me most. For those thirty minutes, sand seems to slip through the hourglass with increasing speed … Continually running through the streets of light and time. There is nothing quiet about any of these images.” Port Adelaide, Australia. 2017. © Trent Parke | Magnum Photos
Jonas Bendiksen Jonas Bendiksen chronicled the life of his family in Norway as they were expecting — and later welcoming — their second child. His photographs offer a father’s insight into this turning point in t (...)
heir life — both as an insider and an outsider. “I wonder what it will be like looking at them in twenty years, this time capsule from when Anna and I were young, and the kids were just two bundles of limitless potential.” 2017. © Jonas Bendiksen | Magnum Photos
Alex Webb For this project, Alex Webb chose to photograph the beaches of his beloved Wellfleet, in Cape Cod, where he spent his summers as a child and as a teenager. His series of beautifully contemplative, (...)
fog-filled panoramic landscapes make for a surprising and exquisite departure from his usual palette: “For me, somehow the serene world of Wellfleet—with its muted grays and browns and ever-changing weather—has become the ideal place to retreat from and reflect on my work, much of which has focused on vibrant tropical worlds, which have dominated my photographic life for years.” Mayo Beach, Wellfleet, Massachusetts. USA. 2017. © Alex Webb | Magnum Photos
Alessandra Sanguinetti For this project, Alessandra Sanguinetti chose to focus on one of her two homes: Buenos Aires, where she grew up and where her aging parents still live. “The work isn’t a reflection of my childhood (...)
, which was a happy one, but more of a goodbye to it and a beginning to come to terms with so many years already gone by and my parents being vulnerable.” Argentina. 2017. © Alessandra Sanguinetti | Magnum Photos
Elliott Erwitt Elliott Erwitt documented both his Manhattan and Long Island homes. His delightful, witty series include still-lives of humor-filled memorabilia; portraits of his grand-children; self-portraits, in (...)
cluding a couple of proper “selfies;” and, naturally, a few loving portraits of his dog: “I also live with my dog Canelo that I brought back from my recent Cuba assignment. He has occasional canine visitors.” New York City, USA. 2017. © Elliott Erwitt | Magnum Photos
Alec Soth To best portray “home,” Alec Soth took on walking eight miles to work: “This project was a chance to slow down and look at the everyday delights that I normally drive right by.” His series translat (...)
es the feeling of a walk, and composes a delicate and loving tribute to Minnesota, the place where he was born and has always lived and loved. Minneapolis, Minnesota. USA. 2017. © Alec Soth | Magnum Photos