Critique Welcomed Home

[Paul Lange]

I have been meaning to do a project about my home for a while but have struggled to find a way to take the photos that I feel worked. I think I have worked it out now. My plan is to post 3 photos from the project every now and again to see what peoples reactions are. I want to try to show what my home means to me in a hopefully visually interesting way. Here goes...

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

Well it tells me that kids have a natural place in that home, different gender so more than one maybe as well as it is colourful and homely. It gives me a warm feeling. Cheers.

 

[Tom Dunne]

Absolutely successful and an original way to do so. I love the sight of the little feet in the second one. If these are anything to go by you're on your way to a brilliant project. Looking forward to the next three Paul.

 

[Beth Carter]

looks like a calm household, even with kids. love the robot stuck to the wall.

 

[Glenn Clabo]

Ha...love it Paul. A nice place to grow up I'd say.

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Knew @Beth Anthony would love that robot!

Really nice Paul - you have a talent for seeing images in the everyday

 

[Paul Lange]

Thanks guys.

Ivar, I have 2 daughters and one of them becomes a teenager next week.

Tom, The toy picnic stuff is my younger daughters which, for some reason, she set up in the elder daughters bedroom which leads me onto......

Beth, Not so calm once they started to argue who should put the toys away. The sticky robot is actually on the ceiling and I think it still might be there now.

Chris, thanks it took me quite a while and many unsuccessful photographs that I was too ashamed to show anyone before I was able to photograph my home in a way that I liked. To me home is very familiar but not necessarily visually stimulating as a result.

 

[Ivar Dahl-Larsen]

A home is a man's castle, a place to be together with love ones, and be able to shut the outside world out when one wants to.

 

[Dan Cattermole]

This is an awesome idea Paul, beautifully executed and has inspired me to do the same....... Looking forward to seeing what I can find...... Not really nailed abstract I don't think.... Just obscurity and bizarre is my thing

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Beautiful shots, Paul. I can imagine you just looking, stopping, staring, thinking "where's my camera?". Deeply personal, yet familiar to most of us.

 

[Hamish Gill]

Straight out of an ikea marketing concept!

These are very good images Paul and would work very well in my line of work!

 

[Paul Lange]

Thanks, looking forward to pictures of Chez DD. Hamish, I am unfamiliar with Ikea's marketing of late, will have to take a look.

 

[Keith Hollister]

Love the asymmetry and the negative space

 

[Pete Askew]

I like these very much Paul. I like the feeling of calm about them as well as the space. They feel introspective and intimate which works well I think. And I like the slight sense of ambiguity of you observing the traces left by the family now absent. Looking forward to the next couple.

 

[Paul Lange]

Thanks Keith and Pete. The second batch have been posted in a new thread.

 

[Aldous Lau]

Very interesting shots Paul. To me #1 is teenage, #2 is babyhood, #3 is childhood

 

[Paul Lange]

Thanks Aldous. The first image is from Ella's bedroom and she has just turned into a teenager. The other two are the work of Maisy who is 8 but the second image is of toys that she has really grown out of.

 

[Kev Pugh]

What a great way to record your home for the future, not just your home but how you see it and how you feel it, would be great to see in one volume when you feel it needs to end.
I have a book, The World from My Front Porch By Larry Towell which documents in a fuller way his home and surroundings, I started a from my front door project a while back bit living alone it doesn't have the same reflection and interest.
I hope that you keep this up Paul