This is a collection of photographic images printed up from found negatives. As a process, my work takes the form of derives or walks through the urban environment, collecting discarded photographic prints and negatives.

My motivation is rooted in an attempt to understand the contemporary status of visual imagery, particularly that which is discarded as detritus. I believe that our perceptions of the surrounding landscape are being increasingly informed and constructed by impersonal Media-generated imagery, being a combination of lived and received experiences.

Indeed, as a society we have exceeded the saturation point for visual stimuli, a point at which the immensity and complexity of the modern city’s media culture have moved beyond the perceptual capacities of its own inhabitants.

Thus there is a surplus; a portion of information, or images, for which there is no use-value. I see the photographs I have collected as the evidence of such a crisis. These personal yet unwanted images are a poignant reminder of the excessive production of an already overburdened visual culture; a stark reminder that our aspirations are somewhat better summed up by that which we discard than that which we try to retain.

Paradoxically, it is in viewing these images collectively, that the overall meaning and shared resonance becomes apparent.