This series is about what we call rubbish: objects that have reached the end of their useful life, things that people no longer need.

At the time I made this work, I was working as a product photographer. In commercial product photography, the object is usually photographed at eye level, giving it a sense of importance and value. I decided to use the same visual language for these discarded objects.

I gave myself one rule throughout the project: never to touch, move or arrange anything before photographing it. Every object appears exactly as I found it. The composition was determined by chance rather than by me.

I worked on this series for three years. The complete body of work consists of around 250 to 300 different discarded objects and object combinations, all found and photographed on the streets of London, particularly in North and East London.

By photographing discarded objects with the same care and attention normally reserved for commercial products, the work questions how we assign value. These are ordinary objects that have reached the end of their use, yet each one carries traces of use, ownership and the everyday lives of the people who left them behind.