The Forlorn Things

The Forlorn Kitchen, 15 February 2011 :: Lucifer VI // BlacKeys B+W // No flashDuring my daily perambulations one of my favourite things to do is to spot lost things and photograph them using my favourite photographic app, Hipstamatic. I’ve collected many, many photos over the years.

Some of the items aren’t strictly ‘lost’ – they’ve been abandoned or carelessly dumped, but many of these items are both pathetic and amusing.

The Forlorn Cosmetics, 26 January 2013 :: Watts // Claunch 72 Monochrome // No flash The Forlorn Sparrow, 1 December 2011 :: Matty ALN // Claunch 72 Monochrome// Laser Lemon GelThese lost things range from the enormous (an entire kitchen left on a nature strip in my street), to the bizarre (a zebra-printed floating armchair caught in the rushes of the Yarra River), to the tiny (a button on the steps up to the Shrine monument), the predictable (innumerable hats and thongs left behind in the Botanic Gardens, broken umbrellas thrust headfirst into rubbish bins), the unpredictable (a cat playground complete with scratching post and dangling fake mouse, in the back alleys of South Yarra where I live) and the truly forlorn (a tiny sparrow lost amongst a flock of wrought-iron ducks).

I’ve endured the stares of strangers – wondering what on earth I’m photographing, crouching on the ground – and you can now see some of these pictures in my new Hipstagallery, The Forlorn Things.

Revisit Lost Things here.

The Forlorn Jacket, 5 February 2013 :: Tinto 1848 // D-Type Plate // No flash