Work.Seun

This project didn’t start as a series.
 It started as time spent with people I care about, in their homes, in mine, in between moments of work, rest, conversation, and pause.
The idea began during a shoot with two friends I knew from separate parts of my life, brought together to work on an interesting campaign.
We were shooting in one of their spaces, and something about how at ease they were, how seamlessly things moved stayed with me.
It wasn’t just about the images, but about what was possible when people were fully present in familiar environments.

Since then, the project has taken shape slowly.
 I’ve moved through multiple ideas of what it could be, thinking more than shooting, shooting impulsively and later holding back to refine. 
I’ve learned that this work doesn’t benefit from being over-planned. In theory, things can look resolved but this project is rooted in practice.

I got some validation at my first exhibition where i was struggling putting work togther and had to submmit a place holder from one of the earlier samples for the series 
and i recieved a lot of feedback, validation of having experienced what they saw and actual interest to purchaces the piece. 
That spurmed me that i definitely had something on my hands.

During Open Studio last year, I spoke about At Home (and Away) With Friends, not as a formal exercise, and not to document productivity, 
but as a way of paying attention to how people exist when they’re not performing for anything outside the room. 
That conversation remains the clearest explanation of what this work is trying to hold.
 Shooting during Open Studio also helped evolve my approach through practice.

Looking back, the images I’ve been making since people working, thinking, talking, creating all sit within that same impulse.
For me, home isn’t about stillness. It’s where life overlaps: work bleeds into conversation, ideas form mid-sentence, and presence matters more than posing.

These images aren’t meant to explain anyone fully, or to resolve into a single narrative.
They sit somewhere between documentation and conversation fragments of time spent together. 
Each moment stands on its own, but carries the same attention.

At Home With Friends is a personal project a way of sharpening my perspective and building a body of work by staying with moments as they unfold.
 Of noticing how people exist when nothing is being asked of them. This work isn’t about finishing a thought,
It’s about staying present long enough to notice one forming.

I like to think of this a the beginning of a longer conversation.
The work will grow, shift, and reappear in different forms, always starting from the same place, with friends.