The photographer Alex Majoli: I find the elusive sense of home captured in this series to be really intriguing. He captures strange, ambiguous objects that form an interesting paradox between hostile objects/ unwelcoming images and the feeling of belonging and safety of home.

This made me think about what paradoxes are present in my idea of home . I want to incorporate photographic paradoxes in my portfolio, such as  the contrast between the ordinary and strange. The strangeness of home, when familiar and known, becomes the ordinary. The character quirks of the people you love and the environment you feel comfortable in, compared to the socially defined “ordinary” is what i define as home. Home is a place that you can be yourself, however quirky than may be.

I want to take pictures of my mum who is to me, the essence of both home and vibrant strangeness.