Patrick McCormack's 'Home Planet' Transforms Grief Through Photography

Patrick McCormack, a photographer based in Vermont who works between the Hudson Valley and New England, has released 'Home Planet,' a new collection of images shot in the Northeastern United States. The project stems from a personal urgency to catalog the everyday as a form of transforming grief. Photography once served as an escape and a silent space for reconnection, but his shift to a more structured commercial photography career and fatherhood changed his relationship with the medium. His visual research now focuses on small moments shared with friends, colleagues, and family—during work visits, garden meetings, phone calls, or trips. The images oscillate between the everyday and the symbolic, where fatherhood and mourning intertwine as subtle but constant presences. The project reflects how personal experience transforms the artist's gaze, suggesting no clear distance between life and art, only a continuous flow of emotions and visual narratives.