Photo exhibition 'Where do you belong?' by Jonnah Bron

Where Do You Belong?

Where do you belong when home and identity have never been simple questions?

Where Do You Belong? is a photography exhibition by Jonnah Bron featuring portraits of queer adoptees in places where they feel most at home. Each participant selected a location that holds personal meaning: a place of comfort, memory, connection or belonging. Seated within these landscapes, they take their place in front of the camera and respond, in their own words, to a single question: Where do you belong?

For some adoptees, questions of identity, origin and belonging emerge early in life. Growing up between origins, cultures, families or countries can create a lifelong search for where—and with whom—you feel at home. For queer adoptees, these questions may take on new dimensions as sexuality and gender identity become part of that journey.

Rather than offering one shared narrative, Where Do You Belong? brings together a collection of individual voices. The photographs and accompanying texts reveal different ways of navigating identity, chosen family, visibility, memory and community. Some participants find belonging in a landscape, others in a city, a relationship or a memory. Together, the works suggest that home is not always where we begin, but something we continue to create throughout our lives.

By inviting each participant to choose a place where they feel at ease, the exhibition shifts the focus away from loss and towards presence. These portraits are not only about searching for belonging, but also about claiming space, being seen, and taking one's place in the world.

Where Do You Belong? is an invitation to reflect on the places, people and communities that make us feel at home -and on the many ways we create belonging for ourselves and each other.

About our event partners

Jonnah Bron (1994) is an Amsterdam-based photographer and filmmaker. Working from a documentary perspective, she explores themes of identity, belonging, intimacy and visibility. Her work is rooted in a personal search for representation and often centres queer perspectives and lived experience. For Where Do You Belong?, she photographed queer adoptees in places where they feel most at home.

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