At Home
At Home
Temporary or permanent, the result of years of looking or a last resort, the place we call home can be a repository for memories, a family we create, an escape hatch. We sent photographers throughout the western United States to ask people where they feel most at home. In the mountains of Utah, we found a mother of four who designed her dream mansion with some help from Pinterest; an hour north, we accompanied a young engineer as she sought the solitude of a trail beneath the night sky. In Alaska, we joined a newly engaged couple who had just purchased their first house. In Oregon, we visited a woman who lost her house to foreclosure in 2013; convinced she would get the house back, she moved to an apartment four blocks down the street. We caught up with a screenwriter as he drifts between Los Angeles Airbnbs, and, in Seattle, we met a formerly homeless woman who has found stability and privacy in a tiny house of her own. — Joy Shan
Photographs by
Ash Adams, David Black, Widline Cadet, Erica Deeman, Lauren Angalis Field, Katy Grannan, Gregory Halpern, Talia Herman, Texas Isaiah, Taylor Kay Johnson, Pixy Liao, Sanaz Mazinani, Andrew Miksys, Ricardo Nagaoka, Ahndraya Parlato, Karen Miranda Rivadeneira, Irina Rozovsky, Marshall Scheuttle, Mark Steinmetz
Audio reported by
Sarah Barrett, Andrea Gutierrez, Jonaki Mehta, Heidi Shin
Audio edited by
Sarah Barrett, Stephanie Foo, Andrea Gutierrez, Jonaki Mehta, Maria Murriel, Heidi Shin, Lyra Smith