Man Chun Wong

"Wasted City"

Section MS1, Ariel Caine

Keywords: photography

We often walk past disturbing rubbish that is left by someone - lunch packing, beer bottles or cigarette butt in inappropriate places. This kind of behaviour should not be happening, it is important for environmental sustainability and morality, and the waste should be treated in landfills or recycling processes. In comparison, in Tokyo, for instance, the street is always clean and ordered, no one is allowed to smoke in public space. Bins are very rare in the street, people usually bring their own rubbish back home or bin it in convenience stores. Focusing on Shoreditch, an area close to where i live, in this project i had the idea of a travel book documenting the rubbish and the found location. A tourguide that tourists can use to return to the location or where an item of rubbish was sited. I used photogrammetry to record and extract the item of rubish from its location, along with a section of the street around it. Each rubbish is showcased through a non-perspectival, isometric viewpoint with back and front on each page.