At Home with Themselves 6, published by Spotted Books in 2014, gathers Sage Sohier’s portraits of same-sex couples in 1980s America. Made during the early AIDS era, these photographs attend to relationships as lived experience: domestic, intimate, and ordinary, rather than as spectacle or social type. The book’s title points toward its central terrain—the private spaces in which couples built shared lives at a moment when public representations of gay people were often reductive or hostile.

Sohier’s approach combines black-and-white portraiture with extensive interviews conducted by the photographer. The images are therefore accompanied by the couples’ own accounts, allowing the book to move between visual observation and first-person testimony. This structure gives the portraits a particular ethical and historical weight. The photographs do not simply document appearance; together with the interviews, they record forms of commitment, self-definition, and mutual presence that have often been excluded from conventional accounts of American social history.

The volume includes 56 black-and-white photographs and an essay by Hunter O’Hanian, alongside its 121 pages. That combination makes the book more than a sequence of portraits: it is an assembled record in which image, voice, and historical framing remain in conversation. For collectors, its importance lies in the clarity of this construction and in Sohier’s sustained attention to the everyday. At Home with Themselves 6 belongs to the history of documentary portraiture, but it also preserves a closely observed account of queer domestic life in a period of profound political and personal uncertainty. Issued in English as a paperback under ISBN 9781320074070, it remains a focused and consequential work within Sohier’s photographic practice.