photography project
2024 -

AWAY MAKING A HOME is a project I started after moving from my home country to the Netherlands. In an attempt to familiarise myself with local ways of being, I take documentary photos. I’m hunting for people and places to nest into. As Susan Sontag wrote, “to photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed.” I try to colonise people’s hearts by putting them in my frame. But in the process, I learn I’m dealing with self-delusion. No matter how many photos I take, I am still a foreigner. I only make myself feel more at ease, but I stay equally alone. By photographing, I’m not partaking in the happening. I am seeing, but unseen.
All photographs in the series are done in an analog and digital fashion.

JELMER KONJO

WHYWHYNOT

DEARHUNTER

ELINE

KINO

INES

WESTERKAATJE

SEBASTIAAN