Home of the Perpetually Lost

Home of the Perpetually Lost explores the fragile concept/term "home"as both place and feeling, and what happens when it collapses. Set in Lebanon, a space of arrival and departure, the work reflects longing, loss, and the ongoing search for belonging.

Home of the Perpetually Lost is a photographic exploration of the multifaceted and fragile concept of “home,” which encompasses both physical and emotional dimensions. Home is, on one hand, a concrete place where we live, and on the other, a feeling of security and belonging. But what happens when this home falls apart? When you have to leave it, lose all hope, and don’t know if it will ever be restored?

Lebanon, a country with a complex history of migration, a large refugee population, and people in transit, forms the backdrop for the questions in my work. As a refuge for people from the Middle East who have lost their homes, while also being a country many of its own residents are forced to leave due to economic and political instability, Lebanon embodies the coexistence of arrival and departure, longing and loss, touching on a universal theme. In this sense, the work resonates with the idea of an archipelago—fragmented yet interconnected spaces of belonging, shaped by distance, displacement, and the continuous movement between them.

The photographs reflect the complex emotions and desires of those who are searching for something elusive, have already found it, or are in a constant process of searching: for a home.