Emily Keegin was born in San Francisco in 1980. In 2009, she received her MFA in Photography from Royal College of Art in London. She is currently based in Brooklyn. About this series, ‘Homeland’, she writes, ‘Pivoting around a set of studio self-portraits, this work focuses on issues of and the 21st century American Dream, investigating contemporary femininity and aging through the relationship of domestic materials to the body. Gesture and object result in a series of meetings between the masculine and the feminine, organic and inorganic. Part personal narrative, and part social commentary, the work slips between comfort and newness, tradition and surprise, flopping between the banal and iconic.
