Home Sweet Home

Home Sweet Home is a 1982 photography book by the Dutch artist Paul de Nooijer, featuring an introduction by Jos Houweling. The publication serves as a compilation of de Nooijer's photographic works produced over the preceding fifteen years. The book is characterized by its focus on domestic scenes and is often described as a "family album" in an artistic context. De Nooijer's approach involves creating staged, surreal, and often humorous domestic scenarios that draw on the traditions of 17th-century genre painting, particularly the works of Jan Steen and Johannes Vermeer. The photographs often utilize exaggerated perspectives, coarse grain, and expressive lighting to explore themes of erotica, personal identity, and the reconstruction of reality. The publication was produced as a first edition in Eindhoven and contains over 80 illustrations.