intimate portraits of trash
From left to right: outside a restaurant, outside a gym, in a public park Caution: Children at play Butterfly nest Out of place Melted ice tributary One drink won't hurt... Gas station gardening Illegal parking Found on the way home Artist Statement When I go on my daily walks, I am annoyed by the sheer amount of trash and litter that seems to be flying around. Of course, it is unsafe to pick up trash with my bare hands, so there’s not much I can do about it unless I get the proper equipment to do so. Instead, I hope the distance between my lens and the garbage I photographed provides a full picture of the garbage within a 15-mile radius of my house. For this project, I went to a plaza with a grocery store, restaurants, and other amenities. The high volume of people that go in and out every day was sure to generate plenty of garbage to photograph, some of which I recognized from weeks and weeks ago. I avoided photographing any notable street signs or other location...