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NO PLACE LIKE HOME
Here is a celebration of the poetry of life. Of the things that keep us warm at night, that get us through the day, that make us jump with joy, feel angry, or confused…the small routines that so subtly mark our days we almost forget about them.
There is comfort and perspective in knowing you’re not alone, in discovering that underneath the wallpaper you’re tearing off, is another, unexpected layer. Richard McGuire: “I think the reaction to Here has been so strong, because it touches on shared experiences, those kind of milestones of our own lives, like weddings, and funerals, and birthdays. When I was doing research for the book, I was fortunate enough to meet a collector of vernacular photography, and he let me go through his archives. Within those thousands and thousands of photographs, you could see we all make the same pictures: kids’ birthdays, holidays… I started seeing them as a sort of collective memory and mixed a lot of his photos in with my own family photos. Because there is a lot of my own family in there. In fact, the real seed of the whole project – part of which I integrated into the book as well – was my father taking a photograph of me and my brothers and sisters every year around Christmas. Always in the same location, always in the same position.”