Absence is presence without Distance.
For this project I will be photographing my mum in her sense of place which is her home in Argentina. I thought I would use my mum as part of my project because for me, I can’t think of my sense of place seeing as I grew up travelling all over the world and every 4 years my family would move again, therefore I don’t have one place I consider my home, apart from where I come from which is Tunbridge Wells, Kent. However, my family now live abroad in South America.
To me, people such as my friends and family are my home and where I feel the safest but it is difficult for me to take pictures of them because we don’t see each other so often anymore as they live on the other side of the world. Furthermore, I decided to use my mum as my main subject because I saw her again this Christmas and travelled to to Argentina to spend time with her family. I believe this was a good idea because it was the first time in about 2 years that she was reunited with everyone and I intend to capture all the emotions from when we arrive to when we leave. In this project I aimed to photograph people’s way of life and traditions as they are very different to ours here i England. In Argentina they are currently suffering from a political and financial crisis where their currency (the peso) is half of its value and the people are suffering financially with inflation and they are constantly protesting against the bad government. Overall, my plan was to see if this crisis had an affect on people’s ways of lives.
Overall, I enjoyed this project because I escaped my comfort zone and documented my mum in her sense of place and photographed the joy on people’s faces at a family reunion. I also loved photographing the culture and traditions that surrounded us.
