In Your Home

Rasha Kahil
In Your Home

Photographs: Rasha Kahil

Text: Jeanne-Salomé Rochat

Publisher: Self published

80 pages

Year: 2011

Comments: Photograph tip-in on cover. Sewn sections in 2 different paper stocks with a naked spine. 26,5 x 18 cm. Limited edition of 150 copies.

In Your Home is a self-portrait series started in 2008, in which I have intuitively and secretly appropriated other people’s private spaces with my own nude body. When I have been left alone in someone’s house, even if for a few fleeting minutes, I have whipped out my compact 35mm camera, and with the use of the self-timer, shot myself in the domestic space, without the host’s knowledge. I have used bedside tables, piles of books, or wardrobes as makeshift tripods, and placed myself in the space through an intuitive and spontaneous choice of composition.

Rasha Kahil