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A sense of place
Palace Lake
Palace Lake
A Sense of Place Collage
Palace fire works
Crystal palace fireworks
Crystal Palace map
Crystal Palace map
Crystal Palace map
Then and now Gipsy Hill
Gipsy hill
Gipsy Hill
Gipsy Hill
Palace- CP
The Palace detail
The Palace

Sense of Place ~

2016

 

A Sense of Place is an ongoing series that explores the emotional and spatial landscape of Crystal Palace, a historic borough in South London and my home for the past seven years—the longest I have lived in any one place. This personal milestone became the catalyst for a deeper inquiry into what it means to truly inhabit a place, and how a sense of belonging is formed over time.

Through a process that includes walking, photographing, mapping, and collecting fragments from the everyday, the work reflects on the subtle ways in which memory, routine, and observation root us to a place. Crystal Palace, with its layered histories, green expanses, and quiet idiosyncrasies, serves as both site and collaborator—offering a canvas upon which identity, attachment, and time inscribe themselves.

This project is not about documenting the borough in a conventional sense, but about tracing a more intimate geography: one shaped by presence, repetition, and a growing awareness of how places shape us as much as we shape them. In a world marked by increasing displacement and mobility, A Sense of Place asks what it means to feel at home—not through permanence, but through presence.

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