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This is part of an ongoing project of street photos that show the "leftovers" of our modern society.
It's been part of my daily routine for a while now to stop and make one last portrait of the objects left on the street, discarded and abandoned, considered useless to the post capitalist consumerist society in which we live.
Once upon a time these objects were manufactured, sold in stores, and bought by someone who needed them, maybe even cherished them, and made a place for them in their lives. And then came the day they had to go, desired no more…
“They ended up on a street, left to die on the sidewalk. Is there a newest, brightest model that replaced them in the homes they once used to share with people?”
As we walk by them every day, we get used to their familiar yet sad presence, and no one really notices them. What have these objects lived, what have they witnessed?
I'm sure they have stories to tell, memories to share…
They had a life, a past, and yet, they ended up on the street, suddenly moving to an another dimension, becoming invisible to our eyes. "Inanimate objects, do you have a soul?" wrote the poet Lamartine.
“Not only objects, but people go through the same cruel process, discarded, abandoned and ignored by all, ghosts on the streets of big cities.”
Pictures and Text © Asli Aktug / France
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