The glove is off

Here is my most recent found-item-of-clothing photograph. It's my local street again, same as the sombrero photo. I have decided to dedicate this blog to my found items of clothing photographs. I find these photos interesting because of the suggestion of a narrative. You have to use your imagination.

What could be the story behind with this discarded glove and what is the red on its palm?

1 comments:

Xenn said...

That's blood.

Just don't ask ok?, I was having a very bad day.

January 31, 2009 11:38 AM

Ni hao

In November 2007 during my first week in China I wondered where all the people were, 1.3 billion? I'd hadn't seen many of them during my travels to Guilin and Beijing. China seemed to have much the same population density as anywhere else in the world. Then I arrived in Shanghai on a Sunday afternoon and found them all. They were shopping in Nanjing Road. All of them! I'd never seen retail like it. I couldn't even get in to some of the shops - standing room only, if you can push your way in that is! Nanjing Road was an experience. I took this photo with my camera phone at dusk while standing on the Bund in Shanghai, which is at the end of Nanjing Road.

Day Two - Sombrero Day

Working in publishing by day. Publishing a blog by night.

Is there anybody out there?

I'm slowly getting the hang of this blog. I'll try and upload an interesting photo.

As a youth I planned to be a photographer as an adult. An adult photographer? Photography was one of my first creative loves. It was the seventies then. Anyway here goes...

I distinctly remember walking to art school during my first year at Elam (Auckland University). It was the eighties. I was enrolled in a first year photography class and glued to my Nikon most of the time. Anyway I walked along side the motorway on my way to school late one morning when I noticed an unexpected item lying on the ground beside the road. A pair of blue denim jeans. Interesting juxtaposition. Motorway, discarded blue jeans. How had they got there? I should take a photo. Where was my camera? I'd been glued to it...

No photo that time. It made me think though. If I had my camera with me all the time I could photograph unexpected items of lost or discarded clothing in whatever interesting locations that I found them. Over the next twenty years I was reminded of this potential series every time I stumbled across some clothing and didn't have my camera!

It wasn't until the mobile telephone incorporated a digital camera that I could be guaranteed to have a camera with me and be able to capture those moments.

Sombrero was taken last week on my way to work. The hat was on a pole in front of an alley beside a local Surry Hills pub at 8am. I'm sure there is a story in there somewhere!

Hello World

At this late point in the evening I have decided that I too need to have a blog!

So here it is.

Sure, it isn't that interesting so far but just you wait. Yeah, that's right. You'll have to wait.