It wouldn’t feel right if I wasn’t stopped by the police at some point in my project. Photographing ordinary, commonplace objects, as I do, always seems to arouse suspicion. In a side street in Exeter I am trying to get a good angle on a Happy Shopper bag caught in a bush, when the local constabulary pedals up on his bike. I explain a little about the project, modern art... rubbish... etc. His face lightens up, and it being Sunday afternoon, and there clearly being no real crime to speak of, he starts to catalogue the technical specifications of his latest digital camera. In quite some detail! It takes a real effort to end the conversation without appearing too rude, and it takes another half an hour before I finally catch up with the rest of my family who left me earlier to take “just a quick snap”.

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