The observation of trifles

The observation of trifles is a photographic documentary project about how a foreigner can try and find his way in a new country and a new neighborhood. I am the immigrant. Taking objects that I found on the streets and using them as a kind of visual archeology, I discovered East London and it denizens. I am focusing on the neighbourhoods of Tower Hamlets and Hackney. I live on the border between both councils. According to recent statistics, they are the both the poorest and the trendiest neighborhoods in London. Owing to their ongoing gentrification, you can find a strange mix of identities, social classes and cultures there.

The combination of objects with photographs help me to introduce to the audience my work through a more physically way and with a mystery feeling. Thanks to this elements I am making an analytic and expressive world: Urban furniture reproductions; Landscapes of council houses created between 50s and 70s for Londoners and immigrants with low rents; Details of letters with notes, draws, addresses... Pictures and film rolls of East London citizens who lost theirs records on the streets... But the most important of this project is the people who I met thanks to signals and ways that I am following because of the objects that I found on the street. They are the key to open an unexplored world, a place of curious self-expression, but also a world of new relationships and most importantly new life stories.

The observation of trifles is a work that is at the crossroads of the Collection, History, Architectural document, visual and social analysis. I have attempted to do not forget the photographic aesthetic and the photographic poetic value.