Video: Native Places in Nicole Lloyd's Photo Project
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
How often do we dream of breaking free from our native places, going far away in the slips of a better life and reaching transcendental heights! And having realized at least a part of our plans, how often do we then remember our native places, where the days of our carefree childhood passed? This is the question that Nicole Lloyd asks in her photo project Places like home and suggests correcting the situation - remembering where we are from and reestablishing a connection with our native places.
Places like home photo project is a collection of landscapes of the suburbs and countryside of America. Nicole began her work in northeastern Pennsylvania, her own hometown. According to the girl, this was an attempt to recreate the connection with her homeland, from which at one time she so passionately wanted to leave.
“By studying the places where we come from, we get the opportunity to reconnect with the past, try to understand its complexity and complexity and realize its importance in who we are now,” - says Nicole Lloyd. Working on the series, Nicole assures, forced her to constantly be in a conflict of emotions: the girl fluctuated between nostalgia and criticism, between gratitude and shame, between hope and sadness.
Exploring the landscapes of the country during her work, Nicole suddenly discovered that there are many places that attract her as well as her home, cause the same emotional state - and this despite the fact that they are thousands of kilometers from the places where she grew up. “I realized that a house is not a specific place, but it is, first of all, feelings. So I started looking for landscapes that were not part of my past, but evoked in me a sense of comfort and closeness, just like the places of my youth."
Nicole Lloyd's works are photographs of someone's houses. Houses, not in the sense of buildings, but in the sense of their native places. And the girl really hopes that these photos will be able to evoke in every viewer memories of their own childhood, of the places where we spent the first years of our lives.
Nicole Lloyd was born in 1980 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. In 2004, she earned her BA from the Manhattan School of Visual Arts. She now lives in Los Angeles, California and works for an advertising agency.
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