Mail - part two

Mail - part one

Having the luxury of more time on my hands than I have known for quite some time, I have been going through some of the small projects I have done in the last couple of years. The first of these is Mail. Between May and October 2008 I photographed many of the different piece of paper/plastic that dropped through my letterbox as mail. Why you may ask?

I think to start with it was a result of being amazed by the amount of recycling I was accumulating each week and I wanted to turn the camera on the cause of at least part of it. 
However, as I went on with my task of recording these banal objects I became fascinated with how I could photograph them in abstract ways that drew attention to each one’s own materiality, be this colour, texture or design. But more than anything this little project was about giving something normally very banal a little bit of attention in its own right. Maybe it is also in part referential to Brassaï’s Sculptures Involuntaires…