From the artist:
“My photographs juxtapose travels with home—the foreign with the familiar. Traveling abroad can be painful as well as pleasurable. The traveler experiences isolation on two planes: (a) the traveler cannot communicate in their native tongue during the trip, and (b) the traveler cannot adequately communicate their journey to their loved ones at home. Thus, travel ruptures the close spaces formed with loved ones. And yet, the thrills are too great to stay at home.
Home, on the other hand, is safe and comfortable. It lacks intensity, yet is a space to heal and grow. Yet returning home after traveling is in itself isolating as well. My photos depict this paradoxical loneliness and excitement of travel, especially in terms of the journey back home.”
Georgia Kasamias is a junior at Youngstown State University, studying English, Spanish, and Religious Studies. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling, shooting film, and writing creatively, among other things.