Liam Frankland

For my final project, I didn't have any sort of inspiration in mind when deciding my theme. So I've decided to look into what artists have also made projects out of pictures of left-behind objects. Liam Frankland is a photographer that specializes in observational photography and has a tendency to incorporate landscapes into his works. He aims to capture areas that humans have left their mark in and tries to look for particularly unusual things, even if it's not the most noteworthy subject or environment. His project "Lost and Found Photography" follows similar principals and ideas.

"Lost and Found Photography" originally came from another project, a 50mm project called "This or That". Frankland claims to have always had a fascination with discarded items and the emerging theme during his other project inspired him to start "Lost and Found Photography". He often found during this project that the objects were placed out in the open or in easily noticeable areas. When he would photograph the objects he would first observe it at all possible angles to find the best composition. He tried to isolate the object as much as possible and appears to have refrained from moving them too much. 

"Lost and Found Photography" is an incredibly similar concept to what I did for my inspiration project. Frankland seems to have also felt that the item's original position is incredibly important for the photograph. I feel his photographs convey a sense of emptiness with how the lost objects are viewed. It really shows just the kinds of things we leave behind and disregard as we go about our day. Though he went for a much wider area to photograph than just classrooms.