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Left behind
was produced when I worked for JAC Stratton Estate Agent as
their in-house photographer. I worked for the company for just
over four months and visited around two hundred properties.
Unfortunately the style of property photography was very repetitive
and I found I quickly lost interest.
I spent most of the day alone, inside properties by myself.
But I began to notice something in almost every one of these
empty spaces. Something had been left behind. Whether it was
a picture frame or an imprint in the carpet, these things started
to become more prominent and more interesting to me.
The eeriness of the houses, the fact the central heating hadn't
been on for weeks, the dust, the smell, the echoes of lives
lived, all contributed to making an otherwise rather boring
job suddenly much more interesting.
I felt a connection with the people who had made a life for
themselves in these now empty and rather soulless places. My
interest was peeked by these mystery objects and I couldn't
help thinking about the people who had lived there previously
and noticing the remnants of there time in the house. I was
intrigued.
Many people are familiar with estate agent photography and the
typical style of photograph. This series shows that their is
another life behind the mundane picture maker imprint of people's
homes.
These things had been left behind for whatever reason: consciously
or unconsciously, willingly, carelessly or reluctantly. People
leave imprints of their lives in their houses, and I have tried
to capture them. |
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