Seeley Drive, 2025

This work reflects my experience of living in my first home of my own in the UK. It marks the beginning of a new chapter — not just moving to a new country, but settling into a space that I could truly call home.

While revisiting tens of thousands of photos taken over the past two and a half years, I selected a small portion that held particular meaning for me. This act of looking back became more than just choosing images — it became a way of understanding how my relationship with this place has quietly deepened 

over time.

Living somewhere is profoundly different from simply visiting. When you live in a place, you return to the same street, the same park, the same cinema. But with time, these familiar spots reveal new details. The way the light falls differently in different seasons, how routines shift, how your emotions change as you pass through — each return brings a new layer of meaning. Repetition becomes a quiet form of intimacy.

As the months passed, I began to meet local people and gradually built friendships. I found myself forming connections within the community, the friendly nods and casual chats that slowly became part of daily life. These small exchanges helped transform a foreign place into somewhere that felt like home.

Many of the images might appear similar at first glance. But to me, they are records of observation and discovery — fragments of how I learned to live again in a new environment. Moving to a different country felt like becoming a child once more: everything unfamiliar, everything to be learned. Through photography, I documented this process — the quiet moments of noticing, adapting, and understanding. Each image is not just a memory, but a reflection of how I grew alongside the place, and how the place grew into me.

It has become a quiet love letter to a place that once felt foreign, and now feels like home.