Rooms are not limited to the three-dimensional physical spaces in which one lives. The womb, the chamber where the fetus resides, is considered sacred in many cultures and religions. This chamber, considered the place where the soul is breathed into a person, is their first world, their first room. The cells that make up the body; perhaps it is also the room that personally completes them. But what about the spiritual room? These are the chambers that make a person who they are, that enable their existence, with their solitude and the people who inhabit them. In that place where they constantly invite others, they find relative lives, and they live their own eternity.

 

Rooms are both inner space and living space. They are places where one feels a sense of belonging, not open to the public, the most private, intimate, and personal space; sometimes a refuge, sometimes a place where doors are opened wide for sharing. Over time, they become owned, personalized, and as one experience the inner conflicts of self-reflection, the person shapes the room, and the room shapes the person; the result is, in a sense, a self-portrait.

 

For a photographer who points their lens at other people's rooms, the resulting portraits are external perspectives that question the human-space relationship. The similarities or differences between other people's rooms and the photographer's own are important in terms of questioning one's own place. For a photographer, perhaps one of the most difficult shoots is capturing someone else's private life, their room.