The sequence of images forms part of an ongoing street level survey, conducted over the course of several years during my wanderings around various European cities. As part of my preoccupation with different facets of urban light, I tend to organise the visual experience of cities into a sub-category such as the one presented here. On the surface, the photos present a cross-section of municipal bins and other waste disposal initiatives, but they also document the way these different solutions seem to provide a visual hook, or plotting point, for the scattershot attention of the passerby - in itself another form of urban detritus. In most respects this work continues in the same vein as images of mine published in a series of Events Programmes for the Italian Cultural Institute and which were later shown in the solo exhibition ‘In-between Cities’ in 2007.
For the most part, the photographs I take are intended as a visual paraphrase to the written accounts of my wanderings. These have resulted in an (as yet unpublished) book based on Italian cities, with another taking a vagabond's eye view of London underway. After Graduating in Graphic Design, I worked as an Illustrator for many years before moving into teaching.
Selected by Emma Morris, Photoworks
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