Trashtopia – Michael Goldrei Photography

Trashtopia

Trashtopia is my series of street photography of the street itself.

While travelling through Cuba at the end of 2016, I started noticing discarded items in the street that looked very different to those back home in England. I decided to see whether you can tell the character of a place by its waste.

What surprised me is that, once I started looking at the items others wanted to get rid of, I became addicted to staring at the ground. Pavements became the Pompidou and Trash cans Tate Modern. Inanimate objects seemed to be able to tell a tale of humour, politics, culture, and joy or sadness.

This series was exhibited at the The Old Fire Station, Oxford in 2018

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