Love Yourself As Much
As You Love Your Friends
“Communication is merely an exchange of information, but connection is an exchange of our humanity.”
- Sean Stephenson
Every summer, Boomtown Festival becomes a meeting point for friendships built on bass-lines and
dance floors. As we’ve scattered into different cities this festival has become the place of reconnection; a place where friendships that usually exist through messages and visits are brought back together in a shared physical space.
This project explores how social connections are maintained through shared experiences, memory, and place. Rather than focusing on stages and performances, the work shifts attention to the induviduals who occupy the sace and the relationships they bring with them.
Developed through collecting personal photographs, interviews with friends, paired together to visualise how memories shape our experiences and connections.Love Yourself As Much As You Love Your Friends combines candid photography, first-hand accounts, and personal archives to create a story of friendship within festival culture, considering Boomtown not only as a festival but as a social space where friendships are reaffirmed and a temporary community forms each year.