In this photo book, Home In Transit, I have sought to define what “home” means in the context of exile, between suitcases and through various train stations, airports, and destinations. Through archival photos, collages, photographic snapshots, and written reflections, this new home attempts to reveal or present itself visually. This search is a personal journey to redefine home before, during, and after the first departure, through various moves and relocations. In other words, the book is divided into three parts.
The first part explores my sense of home before the departure, a kind of retrospective journey. From my current position and life, with all the changes and moves I have experienced, I look back into my memory to my life before the chosen exile, trying to define what my home was at that time, despite the temporal and spatial distance.
The second part represents the transformation of the definition of home through the different moves and relocations. This section includes written reflections from those moments, photos taken during that period, as well as a spatial and temporal distancing.
The third part seeks to define my current sense of home by creating a meeting point between the past—archives, memories, and recollections—and the present.
This photo book was created in collaboration with designer Mostafa Taha.
2024.
Aya Chriki 