What would you save if your house was on fire? This is one of those hypothetical questions that is often posed to make us evaluate what we consider important, what we consider worth saving, and to allow us to analyze our lives. Many people hate this question, while others actually have a fully formed list of what they’d save and how they would go about saving it.

In Robert Holden’s ‘Burning House’ project, he photographed what a variety of different people collected that they would save. See if you can identify the items, and what they mean to each person.