Photography can be a refuge, a means to process the world around us and the deepest emotions that pass through us. For Patrick McCormack, a photographer based in Vermont who works between the Hudson Valley and New England, this medium has taken on a new role over time. Home Planet, his latest collection of images shot in the northeastern United States, is the result of a personal urgency: the need to catalog the everyday as a way to transform pain.
Home Planet: Patrick McCormack’s Photographs
There was a time when photography was an escape, a quiet space to reconnect with himself. But as he transitioned into a more structured career in commercial photography and became a father, his relationship with the art form changed. Today, his visual research is woven into small moments shared with friends, colleagues, and family—between a work visit and a garden gathering, during a phone call or a trip.
The images in Home Planet depict scenes that oscillate between the ordinary and the symbolic, where fatherhood and grief intertwine as subtle yet constant presences. The project reflects how personal experience reshapes the artist’s gaze, suggesting that there is no clear divide between life and art, only a continuous flow of emotions and visual narratives.
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