Deborah Cole

Home can be found in the quiet refuge of another person's embrace. An elderly woman gently cradles a younger companion, offering comfort shaped by years of shared experience, loss, and resilience. Their closeness speaks to the invisible bonds that sustain families and communities through hardship, while another woman sits nearby, equally woven into this collective history. The photograph reflects home as a place of memory, compassion, and belonging, a sanctuary carried in human relationships, where love endures across generations even as time transforms the world around them.

Teotitlán del Valle, Mexico