In my first year of Photography at college the tutor mentioned the idea of found photos and since then I've kept my eyes peeled for photographs on the ground. After three years I've found only two. Strangely the images are both passport style photographs. I'd held on to them for a while not knowing what exactly I wanted to do with them, as well as being worried that if I were to use them in a project or stick them into a book they would become fixed there and could not be used at a later date. I bought a small 'passport style' notebook from Muji and decided that this was a suitable vehicle for the photographs. So as to avoid a finality in their fixing to the pages I used photocorners so that I can remove them at a later date if need be. With each image I included the year and the address of where it was found. Though there is not the volume of material to contribute much to this project I felt that it would be worth including it if I am to look at themes of identity and anonymity.
The first image I found on a supermarket floor as I was sweeping up towards the end of my shift. There was some information written on the back, though beyond the name, Julian Fox, the text is quite cryptic. The text reads: 11540/Julian Fox/Full.
The second image I found on the steps of the Kimberlin Library and so assume that the person in the photograph is a student currently studying at De Montfort. I think this is an interesting facet of this photograph, that I may see or have already seen or encountered the subject of the photo and that they would be none the wiser. There was nothing written on the back.
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