Finding a Family, Is an ongoing personal project exploring what it feels like to be part of a family in a home. Due to my experience of not growing up with a family, I set out on a self exploration making self portraits of myself with different families that gave me access to do so. This project allows me to not only look at and examine a family structure, dynamics in different places and cultures but also grants me the experience of being part of a family which I never had.
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