The privacy of our homes works as a shelter — a place where one can fully be oneself.

More often than not, the visual narratives depicting queer identities in the media oscillate between fetishism or objectification and the perpetuation of traumas inflicted by centuries of oppression. In an active effort to change that, I looked for manifestations of love anchored in domestic spaces and mundane day-to-days.

“Love Stories” began in New York City, where, in a photography workshop, I was challenged with the mission to capture moments of intimacy in the concrete jungle. Missing my partner a lot at the time, and feeling out of my depths as a street photographer, I took my camera to the intimacy of people’s homes to capture queer relationships which, like mine, flourished in their everydayness.