photos of houses around the world

In Beauvais – “Refuge” by Bruno Fert

Decorating your home means placing fragments of yourself in space. Even more so when you are far from your country, in makeshift shelters which can thus be transformed into so many intimate worlds, mirrors of the tastes, the stories, the roots of their occupants.

In France, in Italy, in Greece, the Frenchman Bruno Fert visited refugee camps. His objective, guided by a gentle curiosity, takes us behind these plastic walls which tremble in the wind, but shelter dreams, memories, dignity. His images speak.

They refer to our own interiors, so different, but driven by the same quest: to feel like a refugee at home, unique and protected.

Refuge, to have at the station park until December 31, 2025, free access.

In Beauvais – “Our Dollhouse” by Francesca Hummler

Francesca Hummler weaves the delicate story of the life of her little sister, a black girl adopted at 3 years old by a white family. The parents offer him toys shaped by the patient hands of his great-grandfather – a legacy of wood and memory.

With them, the child invents worlds, characters, stories. Her big sister, ten years her senior – “almost a third parent,” she says – captures these moments of play with her camera, constructing a vibrant visual testimony, a trace of reinvented parentage.

The German-American photographer says with her images that the bonds of the heart can be born in the objects transmitted, in the repeated gestures, in the shared memories. That family, sometimes, is better told in silence, in the light of a cliché.

Our Dollhouse, to have at the station park until December 31, 2025, free access.

In Clermont-de-l’Oise – “Beyond the Mist” by Robert Charlotte

In the misty landscapes of Gaspésie, in eastern Canada, the interiors of houses are refuges of light from the grayness. Those explored by Martinican photographer Robert Charlotte sometimes shine with frank and pure colors, with carefully accumulated objects. So many signs of strength of character, of a desire to mark one’s intimate territory.

This visual journey reveals a mysterious Gaspésie, rooted in its landscape where aesthetics becomes resistance.

Beyond the mist, to have at the Séraphine-Louis cultural space until December 31, 2025, free entry.