“Life is what happens when you are making other plans,” said John Lennon. It is perhaps understandable that we photographers want to focus on the big and the beautiful and have less interest for the unintended and minutia of everyday life. For the most part, life is full of random and mundane events. We shop. We work. We queue. We eat. We walk. We play. For most of our lives, we perform these tasks within a tight circle of our homes.

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In HomeLand, I went in search of the everyday in my locale. The following 30 images were taken within walking distance of my home. Every day for a month or so, I walked in different directions. I left my main camera behind and carried only a small compact. Sometimes, I walked incognito taking candid images. Sometimes, slowing to engage people as they went about their ordinary day.

 

 

I hope some images extract a smile.  I hope some images make you pause to think. I hope some images resonate with your own HomeLand.

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I have shot projects of far-away places, the City, the Coast, the Countryside. Funny how the last place to shoot was the one under my feet – my HomeLand.