Photographing home is one of those deceptively simple ideas. Join us, through photos from @bedfordtowers, on a journey back to the Loop Zine #3 theme, Photographing Home.
Go back to your hometown for the weekend, camera slung over your shoulder, and suddenly the familiar streets feel alive with possibility. Places you once sped past without thought now beg for a closer look. A corner shop you used to stop at after school. The few steps where you and your friends posed for your first group photo. Even the cracked sidewalk outside your childhood house feels charged with memory.
What do you want to remember? Photograph that!
When you’re photographing home, think about what you want to remember ten, twenty years from now. It won’t always be the skyline or the landmark.
More often, it’s the unglamorous bits: the parking lot where you learned to drive, the diner booth that still has the same cracked red vinyl, the way the light falls through the lace curtains in your grandmother’s kitchen.
Those details tell your story better than any postcard view ever could.
What you don’t photograph often says as much as what you do. We overlook the ordinary because it feels too close, too obvious. But years later, it’s the ordinary we miss most.
Documenting your life through photographs
So, next time you’re back in your hometown, or even just wandering your current block, treat it like an assignment. Photograph the overlooked. Make a series. Capture not just what a place looks like, but how it feels to belong there.
Documenting your life isn’t about chasing the spectacular. It’s about making sure the everyday doesn’t slip quietly away.
photo credits
While these images missed the Loop Zine Issue #3, they’re a great reminder of why we need to document our lives and make photographs of home.
From the artist;
“My name is @bedfordtowers. I’m a film photographer currently based in New York City. These photographs were taken on a recent trip to my hometown of Scranton Pennsylvania.”