After 5 months of photographing waste bins, first just in Brighton, then across the country, its time to move on to something fresh.
This is the final shot, taken this week and has a slightly unique element to it, in that it has been the only one which I have really concentrated on capturing. I used a Nikon SB800 flash zoomed to pop the bin out and metered for the sky.
I have had a quite a few emails over the months and just as many conversations with people in the street.
The general response is “I don’t get it, but for some reason I like it”, which is fantastic, I like the fact that I have at the very least captured peoples sense of normal and shaken it a little bit.
There are a few people who have emailed me to say they have started taking photos of bins themselves, but don’t know why, and many more saying how do you end such a massive project like this?
Well I can tell you that when I open up Lightroom, the counter on the keywords tag for bins clocks in at 470. My mind wanders as I travel to and from my destination my eyes on the search for that all so sweet 6×4x8 coffin on wheels, and it has driven me to traversing the city in different directions and paths every single day, just in case there is one I have not yet spotted and catalogued.
This all started off the back of the Creative Photography course at Garage Studios, Brighton. I cannot thank both Matt Halls and Kevin Mason enough for encouraging me throughout the course, and the dedicated work they are doing to empower both old and new photographers alike.
There are already a few comments on the Flickr page, feel free to join in here or there.
The full collection can be seen here: Trash Flavoured Trash = Trash Flavoured Trash
And a blurb book is now also available. Email me (info@avangelistphotography.com) for details.
