Photography — Series 01

Walls from Home

Doors, windows and weathered plaster from my hometown.

Documentary Architecture Series

About the series

Walls from Home is a study of the walls, doors and windows of my hometown — plaster cracked and patched over decades, shutters bleached by the sun, chalk sums left by children, a curtain of laundry, a face at the window.

Each frame is shot straight on, letting the surfaces speak: the colours people chose, the repairs they made, and the lives that carry on just behind them.

Weathered wooden door in a cracked plaster wall, a clay pot and worn armchair beside it

Three grey louvred shutters in a peeling ochre wall

Small open window with a wooden shutter casting a long shadow on cracked plaster

Tall narrow wooden door in a stained wall, a leafy plant at its foot

Small window with one shutter open in a pitted, crumbling wall

A woman in a blue top looking out of a barred window in a yellow wall

A woman in a red headwrap leaning out of a window in an orange wall

Laundry on a line across a window with one green and one bare wooden shutter

A closed wooden window beside an open one with bright blue shutters

Boarded window of sun-bleached grey planks in a cracked tan wall

Window with one shutter open onto darkness, a tuft of cotton on the sill

Two windows and an open doorway, chalk sums written on the wall

Two open-shuttered windows with chalk numbers and lessons on the plaster