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  Homesick | 2014

I am in a very special situation now: I got an opportunity to spend four months in Finland. In this closed, cold, greyish-blue haven you can easily feel really lonely. This is true mostly about the international students, who are getting closer to home day by day. Far from home, we try to fit in the new environment, find out more about ourselves and leave this place with full of experiences. These goals keep our enthusiasm high, even on bad days, and remind us why we came here, what we want to achieve. I asked my portrait subjects, my foreign friends to think about their home, what it means to them, what they miss, if there’s anything they miss at all? While they remembered the things which are important to them, I took a portrait, silently, not to disturb their memories. I let them influence me to go home with them…