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𖤓 Full color
𖤓 76 pages
𖤓 Soft cover
𖤓 6" x 8" | 152mm x 203mm
𖤓 Limited edition of 33
𖤓 Each book is hand stamped with copy number

Home is peril and hope in a 76 page soft cover book.

Shelter is an essential human need. When I embarked on the quest to find a new acceptable shelter, I quickly realized the privilege I have to think such things like sanitary conditions, temperature control, furniture, personal space, the capability to cook are basic essentials.

As it turns out, I wasn't 100% right, according to the market.

I started collecting photos of rental listings sarcastically, as a reminder that there are people paying exorbitant amounts of rent for shitholes, and that there are landlords hubristic enough to charge rent for said shitholes.

But as the collection expanded, I started to gather a mix of health hazards, liminal spaces, places that looked like they're from other eras. I grew to be fascinated by the carelessness of these places being photographed, and saved pictures that are blurry, focused on nothing in particular, or screenshots of screenshots.

Stranger still, are the actual texts within the listing themselves, wrought with spelling and grammatical errors, copied and pasted hastily with no regard for formatting, legibility, or revision. It is obvious that a large number of landlords do not use English as their first language, hence adding to the vibe of the heedlessness of it all.

Before long, I had a robust folder full of these treasures, and now I present them to you in book form.

Through exploring rental listings, I started to appreciate the ephemeral nature of the copy and photos. They are purely utilitarian and will be abandoned or deleted once their purpose has been fulfilled. It is a snapshot of what very common, very average living conditions are like in the moment. Anthropologically, this is an incredibly conventional mid sized North American city in 2026, and I wonder how living spaces for rent will evolve in the future. I purposely did not name the city these listings are from to highlight how generic the experience of looking through hundreds of these is.

The photos in this book have not been altered in any way, and texts are directly copied and pasted from listings, with bold or underline added for visual styling.

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