HőME depended on the photographers who contributed their work and vision and we are pleased to give an online home to their submissions .
The following images were on display as part of the HŐME exhibition, selected from an international open call responding to the theme. Each person bringing a unique perspective on place, belonging and identity.
If you’d like to know more about any of the artists or are interested in purchasing a print, please contact them directly via their website/social media
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Micah Abel
Micah Abel, based in Huddersfield. For my approach to photography I go to the late, great Saul Leiter: “I don’t have a philosophy. I have a camera. I look into the camera and take pictures. My photographs are the tiniest part of what I see that could be photographed. They are fragments of endless possibilities”
@micah_abel_photography
Ted Ayre
These photographs, shot on Ilford 35mm B&W film, explore the quiet topographies of home: spaces marked by absence, resilience, and change. Through portrait framing, each scene becomes a vertical map of human presence and retreat.Backyard Terraces captures a rhythm of lives lived side by side, clotheslines, overgrown gardens, small negotiations between privacy and exposure. In Pebbledash Grey, alleys stretch empty beneath tangled wires, where a chair left behind hints at stories abandoned mid-sentence. Probation Centre Car Park reveals a derelict space where someone, once helped or forgotten, now finds shelter. Here, ‘home’ is provisional, precarious, yet enduring.The use of black and white heightens the textures and contradictions of these landscapes, revealing a layered, unidealised view of belonging.
@tedayre
James Blakely
The work explores themes of decay of what once was the heart of a livelihood. now laid to rest, rising and falling with the tide. An old fishing boat reveals artefacts of the past which have since been ravaged by time, offering glimpses of a former home at sea. Through revealing the interiors of this space, a way of life which ceases to exist alludes to nature?s inevitable reclamation and the steady dissolution of human presence.
@photo_jamesblakely
ChairBleue
Marseille is the second largest French city. Facing the Mediterranean Sea, it is a cosmopolitan city, open(?) to another continent. This city unleashes passions, for better and for worse, but in any case, it leaves no one indifferent
Obsessed with music, photography, and alternative and independent arts, ChairBleue documents the space around us and the indelible traces left by humans. He explores the unique relationship that humans have with their living spaces and the environment, questioning how these places shape and reflect those who inhabit them.
chairbleue.com
Sab Deacon
The images on display are from around the Colne Valley documenting slow change in the environment and human landscape.
I`m a photographer local to Huddersfield who enjoys finding the story in the mundane and ordinary. My work includes photographs from my travels across the UK, but often focuses on the local area, where we have a rich meeting of industrial and natural landscapes.
@sdeaconphotography | @streetsome
Annabel Cohen
Annabel Cohen is a Leeds-based photographer with roots in Hong Kong. Her work gravitates towards urban environments, capturing traces of human activity with minimal direct presence of people. Exploring the interplay between psychogeography and visual storytelling, she uses photography as a vessel for memory and meaning.
A love letter to her hometown, Hong Kong, ‘Stroller’s Companion’ was created in 2021 where she documented spots of the city that were inhabited by inanimate objects. Series such as ‘The Sitting Room’, ‘Props’ and ‘Hand, Foot & Camera Disease’ begun in the book and live on through her photography as she continues to search the streets of Hong Kong for lonely chairs, mops and gloves.
@flaneurbel_
Dan Dummer
There are several spaces in Leeds which I have been drawn to on multiple occasions, and the stairs beneath the Roger Stevens Building at the University of Leeds are a good example of this. The image of the decaying hydrangeas is from a street of modernist houses I really like and walk down frequently, and the tower block is representative of similar post-war structures all over Leeds.
I prefer to work in film as it feels like a more tactile medium to me than digital, and I mainly use black and white. I often create images which convey a sense of loss, or of emptiness.
dandummer.myportfolio.com | @dsd__photo
David Fulford
David is a photographer, designer, and artist based in West Yorkshire. His personal work explores themes of individuality and narrative through intimate portraiture, documentary/still-life, and performative studio-based studies. He aims to capture the authentic character of his subjects and their surroundings – often set against the textured, edgeland landscapes of northern England.
davidfulford.com
Daniel Johnson Gray
A pathway leading off Reddisher Road in Marsden – I’m not sure when the gate was installed, but over its presumably many years it has become broken and twisted and barely performs it’s function anymore. Now it acts more as a waypoint or an unintentional piece of art. Farming equipment rusting away on a path near a farm on the Cupwith side of Marsden. One assumes it’s no longer fit for purpose and too much of a hassle to move so for now exists as a sculpture for walkers to enjoy. Fire on the moor headed toward March Haigh on the 12th of April. As fires become more and more a part of living in this area I won’t be surprised if this becomes part of a larger collection juxtaposing them against everyday life.
www.djgfilmandphoto.com | @danieljohnsongray
Andrew Haigh
Huddersfield based documentary and urban landscape photographer Andrew Haigh highlights the unique conditions of his town, focusing on its cultural identity, architecture, and the legacy of local industry.
The photos exhibited here show an elusive location not local to the artist, a place with an equally elusive role in British military history caught static in time.
@other_town
Jenny Lewis
Photography is my chosen language for understanding the world. I’m inspired by the unplanned – chance encounters, overlooked objects, passing expressions. Each image holds a suspended moment, a narrative, revealing hidden stories and perspectives, allowing the everyday to shine in ways we might otherwise never pause to notice.
Each submitted image represents for me something local, and depicting of home. I grew up in North Nottinghamshire, and the Power stations dominated the skylines, and always let me know from even a distance away that the journey home was almost complete. That power station is Cottam, and is in the process of being demolished, hence the security presence. The image of the mint green building is part of Newark Northgate station and car park complex, and again always signifies journeys to and from home, a terminus for travel. The OK Diner image is again, a signifier that home is not far away lying just North of Newark on the A1, and I love the retro feel and metal cladding on the building which gleams when it is bathed in light.
www.letlightrule.co.uk | @letlightrule
Emmie Penkett
I grew up in Macclesfield and moved to Yorkshire for university, it has since become my home, and everywhere I look I notice something I never noticed before. Malham can be a foreboding place, but in the right light, it to can shine.
I got into film photography after working in a high street film developing lab in 2022, since then my love for shooting film has grown ever since – as well as my Gear Acquisition Syndrome! This is my first photo in an exhibition, so I hope you like it!
@emmie.takes.photos
Laura Richer
Static undergrowth captures nature reclaiming the remnants of domestic life. As vegetation overtakes a discarded TV, the image reflects shifting boundaries between home, abandonment, and the persistence of the natural world. A lot of my photography focuses on overlooked spaces where nature subtly but steadily reclaims the built environment
@the.amateur.pixel
Tim Smith
My work explores a wilderness that`s closer to us than we realise – a contested space that`s neither fully urban nor entirely rural, but something in between. It’s so familiar that we often overlook it, barely noticing it as we move through it. These transitional zones – unnamed, unclaimed, and often ignored – have quietly become the wild landscapes at our doorsteps. Some of these spaces have been used as sites for DIY skateparks, using found materials to act as the foundation of obstacles.
@timo_smitho
James Sutherland
These photos were taken with a camera I made from an old coffee can. I developed the photos in the small bathroom onboard. The negatives are scratched and fingerprinted and dirty. An accurate depiction of a life at sea.
I have spent the majority of my adult life working on ships. It is a strange place to carve out a home. Your days repeat and stack atop one another. The first couple of years I worked away I used to see the time as something to push through. I was so focused on that sign off date. I realised that this meant I was essentially living a half life. In trying to find more of a balance. In trying to treat the ship as a home as opposed to a workplace I took up photography.
www.jamessutherlandartist.com | @jamessutherlandartist
Ellie Waters
Taken from the wider project, “Here Come the Euros”. A selection of photographs which document my surrounding suburbs during the 2024 UEFA European Football Championship. An escape from the tense and at times claustrophobic environment of our living room, as my partner and his family squeezed in to watch most matches.
www.elliewaters.com | @_ellie_waters
Sam Welburn
The former mining town of town of Featherstone once housed three collieries; Snydale, Ackton Hall and Featherstone Main during its 300 year history with the coal mining industry. In 2024, Featherstone unveiled a new sculpture that honoured the heritage of its coal mining history. A 2.5 tonne sculpture of two decommissioned pit wheels were erected and one wheel was painted red that honoured Featherstone’s heritage whilst the other wheel was painted silver to symbolise the future of the town. Featherstone has been my home for the last thirty years and my families lineage were that of coal mining and I was the first to ‘break away’ from that line of work owing to the dismantling of the the industry, the scars felt from that industry passing on are still echoed across the town.
Dr Sam Welburn is a photographer based in Leeds, recently awarded a PhD at the University of Huddersfield in 2023. His photographic practice concerns itself through the collective memory of places through the perspective of a psychogeographic framework of the Situationist International. Utilising this framework is contextualised through the landscape and vernacular imagery to depict the palimpsest of surfaces and the social changes within these environments
www.samwelburn.co.uk
Olly Woods
I`m Olly Woods, a 23 year old photographer from Holmfirth. I photographed the former Kirklees College building in a state of half demolishment, sitting abandoned for the past few years. Itís a transition between old and new, but also a reflection of how many locals view the surrounding area they call home.
@ollygotyou