I was interested in the use of colour and black and white photography so I decided to take photographs of my home in black and white to contrast with the coloured ones of my parent’s home. I chose similar subjects. It is interesting how similar our needs are.

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Culture often determines the meaning of colour and its effect. Black and white tends to refer to death and sadness in western society. In Egypt it signifies rebirth. White can be a colour of mourning, for example in China where red is a colour of happiness and not to be worn at funerals. The black and white of the more modern home seen below does not hide the modernity. Black and white photography is sometimes regarded as more sophisticated, a genre, a photographic method of choice. Colour can also add meaning to photos. Yellow is generally regarded as warm, cheerful, full of well-being. Martin Parr enhances very bright colours, reds, pinks, greens, yellows and blues in his work. It makes the viewer take notice.

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We share so many characteristics. Collecting stuff, books, pictures and so on. You can only glean from what you see.

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The washing still has to be done who ever you are.

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So, things captured in photographs do only capture a moment in time, They tell of wealth, sometimes health, taste, fashion, time/period and so on. They can’t really tell the viewer about the lives of the people living in these spaces. My view is that photographs often reveal little about their subjects’ worlds even when they are peopled.