The Centre of the World
Photobook
- Medium
- Photography, Book design
- Made as
- Personal project
- Where
- Barcelona
- When
- Photographed 2009 to 2012
- Subjects
- 151 travellers
The Centre of the World began with a journey in reverse. Instead of travelling around the world, I invited travellers into my home in Barcelona.
Between 2009 and 2012, I hosted 151 people through Couchsurfing and photographed them during their stays. Each person chose two objects for their portrait: one they had brought with them and one from my home.
I wanted to meet people from around the world and make portraits shaped by that encounter. The objects connect each traveller’s journey with the place where we briefly shared our everyday lives.
The project also became the first website I built, using Adobe Flash. That original website is no longer online.
