The Beds I Slept In

Between 2008 and 2016, Magnum
photographer Bieke Depoorter travelled
through Russia, the United States, and
Egypt, asking random people if she could
spend the night in their homes.
Day after day, different people prepared a
bed for her – on air mattresses, couches,
carpets, on the ground, in living rooms, or
kitchens. A decade later, she happened
upon the hundreds of images she had
taken of these beds, which were never
intended for publication, and wondered
if she had been collecting evidence.
This book is the compelling result.