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'Devotion' by Mark Brady

'My partner and I moved into a new home together in the spring of 2025. We have four kids between us, from a 24-year-old U.S. Marine to a 10-year-old elementary schooler. Different personalities, schedules, wants, tastes and needs. We work to ensure they’re all encompassed in love and care. I think that’s what this photo represents to me, the gentle morning light through the kitchen window, all the gentle work, the daily touches that go into love.'

'Untitled' by Lake Newton

'Sun Singers' by Brandi Mills

'The Sun Singers had lived on that side table for years. My eyes often caught them in the window light they've always faced. They were a quiet, faithful fixture that had long become a subconscious part of the furniture.

I'm drawn to objects that seemingly disappear into a place over time, still holding their history and identity long after they've been forgotten.'
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'Mothers Day, 2014' by Andy Charnas

'Paris in Molly's Room' by Sarah Walker

'Constantly in search of moments worth losing, I am often drawn to split-second examples of chance calling my name. On this specific day, I had gone to shoot portraits of two friends and roommates Molly and Jordan, and ended up documenting a third subject. Paris announced her presence, sashaying up to me, and leading me to the hardwood floor of Molly’s room. She chose a patch of sunlight to sprawl herself across and confidently looked at the lens in an almost rehearsed fashion. Paris wanted me to know that this was her home too and that she was not to be overlooked.'
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'Unmade' by Mary Beth Doble

'Domestic landscapes are often familiar and intimate, while also capable of quietly breaking expectation. Ordinary spaces hold onto moments, creating a sense of narrative even when uninhabited. Our homes tell the story of us.

When I asked my five-year-old son to make his bed, he told me he already had. I found a small flock arranged across the rolling hills of patchwork quilts and bedsheets.'

'Felsenthal family in their lake cottage' by Riley Arthur

'While the Great Lakes region is best known for the large bodies of water that define its geography and the rust belt cities that line their shores, smaller lakes and the communities that form around them also play an important role in determining the character of the region. Like much of the U.S., these communities are rapidly changing, and gentrifying as quaint cottages and country homes are replaced by McMansions and sprawling estates. Corey Lake, a small Michigan lake located midway between Chicago and Detroit, is one such community. Lake People documents a few of the families whose stories are linked to the lake and the historic homes and rustic cottages they still own, some of whose history on the lake goes back five generations. The aesthetic of these lake houses feels both familiar and increasingly exotic with exposed wood, stone fireplaces, and nautical décor lending a sense of nostalgia to the present. The selected photograph features my family in our seasonal lake cottage, which became a big part of my life after I married into it.

'Duplex (red crate, mattresses)' by Kim Llerena

'This image is from a project titled "Nowhere More Familiar", which explores the rendering of domestic memory inside two vacant houses.'
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'Landscape' by Nic Owen

'My work qu**rs the horizon between bodies—physical, spiritual; animal, natural. I look at the landscape as a living body, and the living body as a landscape. Intricacies, blemishes, and other tangled parts become focal, seizing and blurring the narrative. Is this a photograph of a horse's open wound, or a red crater in a windblown field? Perhaps both.'

'Emerald Dissolve' by Derek Ronald

'Emerald Dissolve is a study in artificial immersion. Stripped of its concrete reality, the architectural facade is entirely submerged under an overwhelming green glow, transforming a functional building into a pulsating, lucid dream of color and shadow.

My photographic practice explores the emotional weight of structural spaces. I am interested in the tension between intimacy and isolation, utilizing the urban landscape as a theater to investigate human vulnerability.'
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