Home Holds Still
Hannah Reyes Morales was interviewed by Patricia Villoria for Vogue Philippines about Home Holds Still, her first photography exhibit in her home country.
“What does it mean for you to have your photos be exhibited in Tarzeer?
I’ve been so grateful for this whole process—in a way, this show has been in the making for years. When I moved to Paris in 2022, it was the first time that I had a critical distance to the day to day grind of documentary photography, as well as critical distance from the Philippines. It was the first time that I was seeing—with some regularity—how artists say things in a space. At the same time, through a fellowship I had in Columbia’s Institute for Ideas and Imagination, I began to see the value of my work beyond assignments. I became more comfortable with the idea that documentary photography—including my own—should find homes, a life beyond publication.”
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