DISCARDED = dispose of, throw away/out, get rid of, toss out, jettison, scrap, dispense with, cast aside/off, throw on the scrapheap, reject, repudiate, abandon, drop, have done with, shed, informal chuck, dump, ditch, junk, trash, deep-six.

Discarded is a series of images from a personal project.

“I started shooting this project at a time when I was personally feeling discarded by my family, my friends and the industry that I am involved in. I hadn’t worked in a long time, No commissions had come in and started to think that I was no longer useful or had anything to offer in the field which I work in. I was overtaken by new developments in the industry and felt left behind and outdated. Furthermore, I had been fighting with members of my family, my siblings for awhile and they too were not taking any notice of me, or giving me the time to deal with how I was feeling and as I felt this overwhelming emotion, and the feeling of being …DISCARDED.

I decided to look at and investigate the things we discard everyday. Things that we do not need or pay any attention to, things that are a part of our everyday life that we don’t look at twice. I decided to make all discarded things look beautiful,modern clean, new, presentable and current and valid.”