Whereas the lodging fluctuate significantly from sofa to sofa, one factor is at all times sure: there usually isn’t a photograph of the place you’ll be sleeping. As a substitute, the descriptions written by hosts normally give a way of what to anticipate—whether or not it’s a personal room, a sofa, or typically even sharing a mattress with the host. This lack of certainty makes every sofa keep really feel like its personal distinctive expertise, formed by the host and the area they provide.
Every picture within the collection showcases a distinct host—somebody from a far-off nation with a singular story, job, and life-style. The vary is hanging: a free-spirited girl in Mexico who works at Reserving.com and events each night time, a authorities speechwriter from Canada, and a nudist in Brooklyn. Natcha’s lens captures not simply the hosts however the delicate dynamics that play out when dwelling beneath another person’s roof—typically cozy, typically awkward, however at all times deeply private.
The undertaking started throughout Natcha’s time in artwork college in New York, the place she turned to Couchsurfing as a strategy to ease the loneliness of beginning recent in a brand new metropolis. For her, it was greater than only a strategy to discover a mattress for the night time—it was a possibility to attach, study, and develop. The collection is a portrait of those connections—some fleeting, others enduring—and a mirrored image on how, in the long run, we’re all simply vacationers on the lookout for a spot to name dwelling.
