Conceptual Project

For this project I wanted all of my pictures to have the underlying theme of destruction. In October of 2018 my hometown in North Florida was destroyed by a hurricane. Many times when you watch the news and you see reports of hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, etc. you feel no emotion. It isn’t until it happens to you that you feel anything. My home was damaged and my fathers house wiped out completely along with over 100 other homes. I drove around my town almost a year and a half later and captured pictures of homes that were in the rebuilding process. Some pictures showed homed that were completely wiped out, and some of the homes were unfortunately abandoned because the previous owner could not afford to fix the home. As I was editing the photos I didn’t feel as though you could tell the true meaning or even a common theme among them, so I edited a family into the picture. This gives the picture emotion in my eyes and helps guide you in the process of thinking what the picture is about. Each one of these homes has/ had a family living in it and they do not any more. I wanted you to feel as though you knew the family and were so upset by the loss of their home. After all a house is just a house, it is who lives there that makes it a home.

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