Initial Ideas for Waste

My Initial Idea for Waste is about Abandonment, which covers litter on the street, items being forgotten in everyday life such leaving things on public transport, things stored at home and things being given away to places such as charity shops. I am interested in how after we a use a product, some people carelessly discard it on the street which is litter, how things are forgotten about and how objects are given away to Charity Shops to find a new home and how when people move home, they leave behind furniture and other objects.

Jessica Backhaus

(from the series "What Still Remains")

Backhaus takes photographs of left-behind objects and rooms devoid of people, lending significance to things usually cleared away or overlooked. Her images ask the viewer to imagine where, why, and who — writing a story that illustrates the transience of time. When looking at this series I find the shots to have this sense of emptiness and isolation. I enjoy the obsure angles of some of the images in the series which gives this personal feeling to it.

Richard Wentworth








(from the series "Making Do and Getting By")

Oyvind Hjelman 







(from the series "House that was Home")

The quiet photographs made by Oyvind Hjelmen are intimate philosophical explorations of time, memory, history, loss, (photography itself), and more.In this series, he documents the last bits of once-prized possessions in an old house, as the house is gradually emptied after the person who lived there has died. Again I find this series to have this sense of emptyness and loneliness, which is empasized with the use of Black & White Photography. In some of the images have the overexpose of natural light which starts to bleach parts of the image which in a way is a symbolism of the memories in that room being erased.