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.

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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.

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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.