The shopping trolley is one of modernity’s most familiar objects, and, once displaced from its prescribed location, one of its most revealing.
Trolleyed is an ongoing photographic series documenting supermarket trolleys found far beyond their intended habitat: in rivers and streams, in woodland clearings, on waste ground, on beaches, in the margins of the built environment. Each image records a specific act of abandonment, but the series is less concerned with the object itself than with what its presence discloses about the landscape it inhabits and the culture that produced it.
The trolley is a readymade symbol of late-capitalist consumer logic: the accumulation of goods, the engineered obsolescence of everything, the disposability that extends not just to products but to places. Photographed through the lens of psychogeographic methodology, the abandoned trolley becomes a diagnostic tool. A way of reading the landscape for what it has been asked to absorb, and what it quietly refuses.
The work sits within a tradition of documentary photography that finds meaning in the banal and the marginal: the overlooked object as a site of genuine cultural density.
These prints are for those who look at a landscape and want to understand it, not simply to be pleased by it.
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