‘Domestic Drift’
When we were sent an email this week about photographers who work in their own homes, Clare Gallagher’s work is something that stood out to me. In particular, her project titled ‘Domestic Drift’ [right]. This project is concerned with everyday life and the ordinary moments that fill our time beyond the exciting parts of the day. As I hope to do so with my own work, the images show the small details that really make up a beautiful life; the quirks of family, the evening sun shining through a window, the mess that comes with just simply living.
In an article on Clare Gallagher, Julia Schiller writes the perfect description of the everyday: ‘The everyday is complex terrain. Always there, readily and universally available; surely it is so obvious that it needs no unveiling. And yet it is also shrouded in haze, our sense of it dulled by familiarity and habit.’ I find this last part very interesting. The everyday is all around us always, yet we successfully overlook it because it is always there. I want my work, just as Gallagher’s does, to remind people that the ordinary things are there and just as important in making up who we are as the extraordinary things.
I really like the colours in Gallagher’s work as well. There is a similar visual style to the work I have been doing so far in this project and even some of the subject matters are the same. Each photo also focuses on a small detail or object, rather than a whole area or room – this is mostly how I have been working so far.
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