Where the Camera Points

Sophie Van der Perre is a Belgian photographer whose work tends toward the intimate and deliberately unhurried—less interested in the decisive moment than in the slow accumulation of a life as it arranges itself in space. A Place I Call Home belongs to that photographic tradition of turning the lens on whatever counts as home: bedrooms, hallways, the kitchen at an odd hour, the places that hold the residue of living. The title is doing a small amount of work there—"a place I call home" rather than simply "home," with all the equivocation that implies. Belonging is something you negotiate, not something that simply exists, and good photographers understand that better than most.