We are home: The first territory

This photo series reflects on what home means to me. I immigrated from Colombia in 2022, and since then I have been discovering that home comes from within — shaped by our experiences and what we carry inside. A house is not merely a physical space; home lives within us. No matter where we go, home is always with us.In this first session of the series, I collaborated with Momoko, a beautiful friend I met in Malta in 2023. Both of us share the experience of being immigrants. She is originally from Bangladesh and Japan and, at that time, had been living in Malta for two years, after previously living in Ireland and other countries across Europe.I asked her to bring an object that represents what she always carries from her motherland, and to choose a place in Malta where she could feel a connection to her new home. This is how we ended up doing the session in cactus fields. She wore traditional Bangladeshi clothing and painted a red circle on her face representing the Japanese flag.Through this work, we sought to represent the idea of how we create home wherever we move, while still carrying something within us from where we come from.