Scot Langdon

“Finding Home”

When you travel to another country out of duress and try to make it your home, what stresses and anxieties might run through your mind? Language, customs, a job, transportation, healthcare? My photo essay began with a local news story about hundreds of Afghan refugees fleeing the Taliban and arriving in Massachusetts in August 2021. The story, “Finding Home,” follows a young Afghan father and his young family’s arrival into a local community, learning a new language, interviewing, and finding a job, and moving into a home they can call their own.

Through all types of traditional and social media, we are inundated with images of immigration and human migration issues, refugees, resettlement, the border walls, and the political infighting and need for power that separates people from each other. With my photographs, I hope to open the eyes to our local community on how much more we have in common than our differences. The passion for this project stems from my desire to dig a bit deeper into a new family in our neighborhood that values the same as we do in the United States – family, work, safety, and a stable future.

Scot Langdon
June 14, 2022

Artist Bio

Scot Langdon grew up in New England and works as a professional photographer in the Boston area. His work crosses between design-influenced commercial work and visual journalism. As a Visual Journalist, Scot focuses on stories displaying moments of struggle and elation, cultural differences, and the simple beauty of humanity. His work has been published in The Lowell Sun News, Lowell, MA, North End Magazine in Manchester, NH, Tow Times, and AmeriHealth Caritas Magazine. For over a decade as a commercial photographer, Langdon has collaborated with clients in varied projects and the industries of hospitality and real estate creating colorful and graphically pleasing interiors for national hotel chains, seaside inns, and property management companies in Greater Boston and throughout New England. Langdon graduated from the Newhouse School of Public Communication at Syracuse University and further education in digital marketing and video editing at The University of Vermont and American Graphics Institute in Boston. After college graduation, Scot created a self-described internship for five weeks, photographing the volunteer community on Kibbutz Malkiyya in Northern Israel.