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My Favourite Space


Project Researcher: RRA


My Favourite Space is a photography and research project that explores how individuals form emotional and spatial connections to the places they hold dear. Across a range of cities and cultural contexts, participants are invited to guide the researcher to their “favourite space”—a site marked by memory, transformation, comfort, or significance.

Each encounter begins with extended conversations. Sometimes these span several hours or days, allowing time for trust to develop before any photographs are taken. The process culminates in a triptych: one analog portrait of the participant, and two photographs of the space without them. All images are made using a medium format Hasselblad 500C/M camera, composed in-camera and left uncropped or digitally altered, preserving the integrity of the moment and the frame.

Since January 2024, over 60 individuals have been photographed in locations ranging from rooftops in Mumbai and gardens in Hamburg to riversides in Barneville-Carteret, music halls in Berlin, and vans in Ahmedabad. Whether public or private, temporary or sacred, each space reveals how architecture becomes deeply personal.

The project sits at the intersection of analog photography, spatial storytelling, and ethnographic research. It proposes that by observing how people inhabit and care for their environments, new forms of knowledge about place, memory, and identity can emerge—slower, quieter, and rooted in presence.

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