Found

For those of you who haven’t had the pleasure of checking out Found Magazine you really should: It celebrates the discarded and left behind things that many would just dismiss as rubbish. From the most personal notes to baffling photos it holds such quaint charm in rescuing theses items.

Since ‘finding’ Found myself I have found it increasingly difficult to walk around pavements and car parks without picking up and down turned but of paper just in case it could be the gold I look for.

Recently I found this picture near a school by my house. The second aspect of a find is analysing it to find out, mostly hypothesizing, as much detail about the people it concerns.

Here we have a picture of a child who appears to be having his first birthday with his dad. The photo has been cut to remove a third (or more?) person. A wife maybe? The actual photo is slightly scraped, probably due to the fact I found it on the pavement, but this seems to be minor scrapes. It dosen't hold the tattered edges of a photo that has been kept in a wallet for an age or fingered constantly. The clothes give little help in trying to determine when the picture was taken but it seems fairly recent.

The most striking feature I find about the photo is the ‘father’s’ eyes. On what should be such a happy occasion they betray his smile and display a latent sadness.