UNDERPAID
The underpaid employee is tasked with sweeping the front of this corporate fast food chain. In doing so he flings dust clouds from the threshold of McDonalds into a small mom-and-Pop kebab shop. He cares not for those he is affecting because he is exhausted and overworked whilst being terribly underpaid by a company that favours rich investors over hard-working and loyal employees.
This seems to be a metaphor for how little big corporations care for the communities they enter. They disregard the history, architecture and the ambience of a place only seeing green dollar signs with those greedy eyes. In doing so they often destroy humble ventures that have been in the area for generations. This can destroy communities and created downward spiral of antisocial corporatism. It also sterilises any character from an area.
I am currently scanning negatives from my university projects in the UK and abroad on Erasmus. I find solace in revisiting them over a decade later.
Most of these photographs were taken on an old analogue Nikon F2AS. Which I sadly had to sell in austere times. I loved the tactility of that beautiful and indestructible camera. It’s served me well for many years and I am enjoying the process of digitalising the fruits of its labour.