Jaima chronicles the experiences of the Western Saharan Diaspora living in France. Following Spain's incomplete decolonization of the territory in 1975 and the unfulfilled promise of a UN referendum in 1991, many Sahrawis were displaced, fleeing conflict and the Moroccan occupation of their territory. France has become home to a sizable number of the diaspora community. Today, the struggle for self determination for many Sahrawis continues from afar over a territory they call home, but Morocco administratively controls. The project explores how cultural identity is sustained and reshaped in displacement, and how a sense of home persists across distance. Developed over sustained access to families and community gatherings, the photographs move between interior and exterior spaces. At home, the photographs attend to intimate moments, routines and gatherings. Outside, portraits situate Sahrawi subjects in French public places, tracing a physical presence of home, while holding another one elsewhere. Community images anchor these personal narratives within an ongoing political reality, where identity is not only lived, but continually asserted as a shared responsibility. At the centre of the project is a question that is perhaps most acute for the younger generation — those who grew up here, for whom France is simply home, and yet who carry another place inside them that they have never, or barely, lived in. Jaima is an attempt to honour that tension: to sit with what we carry when we cannot go back, and what we become when we stay.