ROOM#024 – JOSEPH – Paris – France
British writer Woolf wrote in her book "A Room of Ones Own": "A woman should have her own room." A room is a persons most private place of belonging. In your space, you can think and create. And the world where emotional energy flows, is locked, and no one can disturb your world without permission. So, what does your room look like?
ROOM#385 – PEMA – Kathmandu – Nepal
ROOM#829 – SALEH – Riyadh – Saudi Arabia
John Thackwray, a photographer from South Africa, has launched the "My Room Project" since 2010. A series of works come from 55 countries, which seems to have become an alternative to the photos of the Polish couple holding hands in "Follow Me" and the high-five photos of Instagramer Andrew. A photographic record of traveling around the world! This series of photography began just because of Thackwray’s personal interest, as a search for travel marks.The collection started with shooting a friends room in Paris, and now it has been captured on Thackwray films from Hedland to Tokyo, New York to Nepal and other cities!
ROOM#256 – RYOKO – Tokyo – Japan
ROOM#219 – MALEEQ – New York – USA
By setting up the camera on the ceiling of each participant, creating an unprecedented birds-eye view, recording the most private spaces and moments of the room owners, and interviewing them to understand their lifestyle and culture, and Thackwray also He specially selected people who were of the same age as him and were born in the 1980s and 1990s as the shooting subjects. He believed that this group of people had collectively experienced the baptism and training of hopes, dreams and cultural attitudes, and also served as a basis for observing his relationship under various cultural and national conditions. How people of the same age live.
ROOM#665 – MARCELLO – La Paz – Bolivia
ROOM#416 – OLEG – Novosibirsk – Russia
ROOM#290 – YUAN – Dali – China
ROOM#149 – OSIA – Ha Selomo – Lesotho (located in southern Africa)
ROOM#348 – ASHA – Bamansemilya – India
Since its inception, Thackwray has photographed thousands of rooms and is due to publish a book before Christmas this year as an international exhibition on paper, to be published in both English and French. through this photographyThe collection can also witness the diverse lifestyles in todays society from poverty to wealth, tradition to modernity, and seems to have contributed some precious records to the field of anthropology.
