SOMEONES RUBBISH / DOCUMENTING BRITAIN: PODCAST, IDLE HANDS SOCIETY

My first podcast! I was really nervous, but now happy I took the plunge! It was fun to do and felt more like a chat between creative friends. It has left me wanting to do more. Thank you for having me on your show Dan and Paul. IDLE HANDS SOCIETY PODCAST

In today’s episode, Dan & Paul talk to the photographer curator of Documenting Britain and Photographer, Chloe Juno. We talk about the beginnings of Chloe's 'Someone's Rubbish' project. all our struggles at school, Paul's description of living with ADHD, how Chloe's career lead her to where she is now, what it's like working in an agency, the drug-like nature of social media, how Instagram can be a useful tool, worrying less about the rules, the past and future of supporting and inspiring young creatives, Chloe's tiny joy's, the lost art of real conversation, documenting history, knowing when a project is finished, a little advice for people submitting work and how Documenting Britain is inclusive, and mentality of street photography versus documentary photography. Idle Hands Society Podcast - A community for creatives.

Chloe Juno - False Teeth, Someone's Rubbish.

SOMEONES RUBBISH: TIGHTS, ARTIST TO STUDY, FIVE QUESTIONS

2nd year fine art student Jess Phillips at NPTC contacted me as one of her chosen artists to study, she is working on her own project ‘Litter and Plastic’ she had five simple questions to ask , it was fun to answer and also to see how she has been really looking it my work and using it for inspiration for her work.

Jess shared with me the notes she made whilst looking at all the objects I photograph. I was blown away, it’s like she has sat inside my crazy brain, seeing how she has been really studying and looking at my work also how she writes about how one’s eye travels around the object it’s exactly how my eye and brain works when I am out making the ‘SOMEONES RUBBISH’ photos.

Notes, Jess Phillips looking at SOMEONES RUBBISH by @chloejuno

@earth_roots on Instagram Her project ‘Litter and Plastic’

JP: Why have you chosen to photograph litter?

CJ: I didn’t really start out choosing litter it was more an organic process. Spotting small things on the street that interested me. I loved the fact I could really zoom in and look closely at an object on with my phone camera. My camera allowed me flexibility. My professional work back ground and personal passion is working within documentary photography and social history looking at everyday life and objects. I started to look for more objects, I have been enjoying a way to document the everyday..

JP: What emotions do you feel while seeing litter on the streets?

CJ: I love this question! sometimes I’m just walking and spot something and feel a bit of a buzz / tingle to look further so I photograph the object.. sometimes I walk and walk to find things that fit into the over all picture I’m building. I often go into bit of a zone like I’m really focused, like I’ve just landed here and seeing things for the first time whilst also remembering things that maybe I have used in the past or relate in some way. Some things I find make me feel happy as I can feel a happy lived experience other things can make me feel sad..

JP: Is your work a stand on our litter problem?

CJ: No not really it’s more story telling like a street museum / imagine it’s like an archeology project looking at now. It does also address a litter issue but that’s not the overall aim of the work.

JP: What pieces of litter do you think is the most and least visually appealing/ interesting and why?

CJ: I guess I find all the litter / rubbish appealing in some way even stuff that’s perceived as disgusting as it’s all a part of us, represents us and the life we live now.

JP: If you could describe your work in 5 words what would they be?

CJ: It is not necessarily rubbish

Last question was hard, but it fits, as the work is about more than just rubbish
Does this all help. I’m dyslexic so beware of spelling CJ

JP: Thank you so so much! All of your answers are interesting and inspiring. I can’t wait to put your viewpoints and answer to work within my project! Your patients and kindness has been much appreciated and I’m very grateful you were so willing to help.

Thanks again! Jess Phillips

Tights, Someones Rubbish, Brighton and Hove, 2020

Ciggertett Butts, Someone’s Rubbish, Brighton and Hove. Notes Jess Phillips

Inked up Litter by Jess Phillips

Inked up Litter by Jess Phillips

CJ: FEATURES; SARAH HOLLAMBY, LOCKDOWN NON STOP TOOTHACHE 2020

“During the start of Covid-19 my dad's girlfriend Fran had non-stop toothache and was badgering my Dad to pull it out for her. He declined almost every time, but her wining got the best of him. After 6 cans of Carling, they were both ready to take it on. With his hand and two pulls her rotten tooth came out swiftly. These are probably the only photos I've captured where I can genuinely feel the atmosphere of the room”. Sarah Hollamby

First lockdown dentists were closed, I had to sort out my own temporary filling, I explored the world of home dentistry, this is something people do anyway due to financial constraints. I found DIY tooth repair kits like Dentak and Toofy Pegs, also lots of you tube videos on how to fix your own teeth. I searched high and low for home repair kits as many shops had sold out. My neighbour had fixed her own crown and was willing to share her last bit of tooth putty with me, in the end I managed to find a pack. When I saw this brilliant set of photos by Sarah of her dad’s girlfriend tooth situation I felt her pain, it could have been me! Chloe Juno

I follow Sarah’s work and really love her eye on the world, instagram SAZHOLLAMBY

LOCKDOWN NON STOP TOOTHACHE Photography Copyright Sarah Hollamby

LOCKDOWN NON STOP TOOTHACHE Photography Copyright Sarah Hollamby

LOCKDOWN NON STOP TOOTH ACHE Photography Copyright Sarah Hollamby

LOCKDOWN NON STOP TOOTHACHE Photography Copyright Sarah Hollamby

1M JABS A DAY, THE SUN, IMPERIAL ARCADE BRIGHTON, 2021. CJ STREET PHOTOS

My local alterations shop is being refurbished and I love the fact they have pasted all the pages of The Sun newspaper all over their windows. Getting back into the habit, making sure my 35mm comes out with me everyday.

Western Road Brighton, Chloe Juno 2021

CHLOE JUNO CURATING: DOCUMENTING BRITAIN: GRAFTER MAGAZINE

Just seen today, that the work I do curating over on @documentingbritain and ‘Someone’s Rubbish’ has been written about in a brilliant new magazine https://www.graftermagazine.co.uk/ Instagram @grafter thank you Colleen! Grafter featured nine stand out people or collectives who are really opening up various discussions.

“ Something particularly engaging about Documenting Britain is the pure simplicity of it. The brilliance surrounding that simplicity. Taking photographers from all walks of life in Britain. Documentary Photography at its finest. A range of ages and backgrounds.” Editor Colleen Considine

Documenting Life / Brutal People. Real Opinion. 

As political activist Martin Burke said, it's for the "change makers."

‘The working classes for too long have simply been passed off as another part in the machine. A society all in itself who are ignored, while each day people work hard without complaint. The most interesting people are the ones you don't know exist yet. So we interview normal people with a lot to say. From journalists, to shop keepers, mechanics, farmers, photographers, teenagers and the weirdos in-between. An honest magazine. Real people. Real life.  Opinionated, brutal and downright annoying. So look at the range of articles and people in our magazine’. GRAFTER Available now. 

Grafter Magazine - Nanny Ei / Photo Sam Wainwright https://www.instagram.com/wainwrightsam/?hl=en

Grafter Magazine The Workers Magazine Feature Page 103

Grafter Magazine

SOMEONES RUBBISH: MATH ROBERTS PRETTY SHITTY CITY FEATURE

November 2020 Photographer Math Roberts asked me to talk to him about my work and invited me to feature ‘Someone’s Rubbish’ on his blog. I was really excited and happy about this invite for a few reasons, Math is one of a handful of people I have followed since I first joined instagram, from the start of uploading Someone’s Rubbish photos. I have used instagram for 5 years and over this time Math has been brilliant to speak to about all kinds of things. When I was without a camera he even offered to loan me a Ricoh GR11 we hadn’t even met. He just said “Chloe you can't be without a camera and I would love to see you take some photos on Brighton beach”. I managed to sort a camera, but it's not forgotten. The people that do selfless kind things. I love his street photography and his passion to just to get out there and make work. He’s part of a supportive creative network that exists on social media, sharing photos, ideas and lifting each other. This interview was fun and felt like a natural conversation. Thank you Math…………

https://www.mathroberts.com/blog/2020/11/8/documenting-britain-who-is-chloe-juno

SOMEONES RUBBISH: METRO FEATURE, Christmas a time of consumption

On Christmas Day at 11pm I was so excited to spot Someone’s Rubbish featured on METRO

https://metro.co.uk/2020/12/25/artist-captures-photos-of-christmas-rubbish-on-the-street-13805273/

A brilliant Christmas gift, to see my photos reach more people. I love making the work, all the walking and exploring and I always get butterflies when I see my photos being written about and shared. Big Thank you to Alex the photo editor who found me, he said he really tries to push photography that he follows and loves and its exciting for him when features go for it.

Artist captures photos of Christmas rubbish on the street

‘A photographer has amassed a collection of pics showing litter from everyday life. Chloe Juno has taken to snapping photos of the detritus she’s found on the streets of Brighton and Hove every day since 2014. She adds the pictures to her Instagram account @chloejuno almost daily, and has said that many of the items she photographs are things she’s used herself. Chloe has described her collection as ‘an archaeology photo project, a street museum of now, looking at the cost of living’.

JANUARY COBBLERS, PULLINGERS, BRIGHTON 2012

2012, I co-led a 2-year social history project documenting an area of Brighton that has a history of extreme poverty. We collected up 32 oral histories and I spent time photographing the area for a 200 page oral history and photography book. The book can be sourced at the British Library and the Keep Brighton. The photos below are from a long-established cobbler, the place to get your shoes all fixed up in Brighton. It's now closed. I'm working over my archive, looking at new edits of past work. The first photo below didn't make it into the book!

January, Cobblers, Brighton, 2012.

For me personally, this project was so amazing to work on as it was all focused around an area I knew so well, and one set of grandparents used to live in a tower block in the middle of the area that we were working in. I felt at home and at ease walking and exploring with the camera. They used to go to Pullingers cobblers to sort their shoes out!

January, Cobblers, Pullingers, Brighton, Photo Chloe Juno

Pullingers, Brighton, Photo Chloe Juno

Pullingers, Brighton, Photo Chloe Juno

Pullingers, Brighton, Photo Chloe Juno

Pullingers, Brighton, Photo Chloe Juno

Pullingers, Brighton, Photo Chloe Juno

SOMEONES RUBBISH: FOTO FEMME UNITED, Traces Of Faces by Meg Wellington-Barratt

I’m really happy to be included within Foto Femme United

Meg Wellington writes about ‘Someone’s Rubbish’ It's a great article, Meg took some time looking over thousands of my photos. In Notice Jobs Money, the paper is wet and weathered and discarded cigarettes and matches surround. The narrative of unemployment continues in the readymade composition, torn off numbers giving clues of the previous human interaction that took place. Many poignant topics run through Juno’s project that can be interpreted as markers of contemporary living. Homelessness, drug use, unemployment, marriage, elections, birthdays, right through to the current pandemic. The archive that is being built through the project is a brutal, unedited one. There is sadness upon viewing some of Juno’s photographs, a disbelief that they are extracted from a recent time.

Read More https://www.fotofemmeunited.com/article/244

Foto Femme United is an international women’s photography group and community established and based in Paris, France. Our mission is multi-layered. To start, we believe that empowering women in photography around the world is vital.

Meg Wellington-Barrett

https://twitter.com/megwellingtonb

https://www.instagram.com/bonjourmeg/?hl=en

CIGARETTE BUTTS, SOMEONE'S RUBBISH, BRIGHTON, 2020.

Someone's Rubbish over 3000 images on Instagram. Photos taken daily from 2014. Looking at everyday life in the centre of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, Britain. The objects people use and discard, a street museum of now, looking at the cost of living, the things we need to use in this life, for play, work, education, health, beauty, food, sex, love, drugs, debts, money, bills, general domestic life. Over time I have also realised, that many of the objects I am drawn to document are things I have used or relate to in some way. As the collection builds patterns form, representing a section of a city.

A big picture of life now.

Cigarette Butts , Someone’s Rubbish, Brighton and Hove 2020 @chloejuno

SOMEONES RUBBISH: Cigarette Butts and Rose Petals, Photo of the week Rolling Stone, Black Camera.

I recently found out my work had been selected as photo of the week for February’s valentine feature online Italia Rolling Stone. Very exciting!!! for ‘Someone’s Rubbish’ but I only found out as I searched my name on google. So I recommend to all photographers, every few months search your name, work might be out there being used without permission. I am happy about this feature but it would have been lovely to know. An email is on its way!

Cigarette Butts and Rose Petals, Someone’s Rubbish, Brighton and Hove 2020.

“Petals and butts, consumption, and feeling. This week's Photo of the Week captures the objects that have been part of our lives for an instant, before being thrown away. What remains of love after Valentine's Day, the balloons after the party, newspaper clippings, and used condoms.  In 2014 Chloe Juno started Someone's rubbish project, photographing and then posting on Instagram more than 2500 objects that the people of Brighton and Hove, a coastal town in the southeast of England, used and threw in the garbage. STEFANO MARRONE 

Cigarette Butts and Rose Petals, Someone’s Rubbish, Brighton and Hove 2020 @chloejuno

MY RUBBISH: EGGSHELLS, LOCKDOWN, 13th JUNE 2020.

BUBBLE GUM, Someones Rubbish,Brigton and Hove 2015 -2020

BUBBLE GUM is a type of chewing gum designed to be inflated out of the mouth as a bubble. I used to love Hubba Bubba and Bubblicious when I was kid, the taste of a fresh square, as I would bite into it, then moving it around my mouth, biting it and then trying to work out where to place my tongue to blow the best bubble.

I’m making photo grids of some of the rubbish I have spotted and documented over the years. I use an i-phone for all the ‘Someone’s Rubbish’ photos and now use a layout app to create the grids. The immediacy of this technology works so well for my dyslexic brain. I often have fast thoughts and think of bigger pictures, so the ability to create something so immediate that comes to mind, its totally freeing for me.

Limited edition prints, available to buy soon over on my shop page.

Drool Prints: Smashed EGG Shell, England, Someones Rubbish, Brighton, 2015-2020

print sold

For the last 5 years I have been photographing the objects people discard on the streets of Brighton and Hove, England, creating a big visual picture of life now. I have started selling limited edtion prints over on DROOL . I was so excited to sell a print and it was so lovely and inspiring to recieve the feedback below, I love the fact that someone wants to see the work I do everday and that it’s now hanging in an apartment in Brooklyn, New York.

“ I very much enjoy your instagram and find your pictures compelling and thoughtful - your artwork makes me stop and think, which is an ever more precious thing in this breakneck world. (Although, having said that, everybody’s been inside the last few weeks, lol). Anyway, I look at the shattered egg every day and its great so thank you and keep up the excellent work”

SOMEONES RUBBISH: BABYBEL ChloeJuno, Brighton and Hove, England.

Babybel Skins, Someone’s Rubbish, Brighton, and Hove, May 2020.

Social distancing, walking, and spotting rubbish.

I have been taking daily photographs of rubbish for 5 years looking at life via the objects we discard. I have always thought about how the rubbish will look to people in the future looking back on us as a civilization. I have thought about a time when maybe there are fewer people on the streets and how an archeologist looks at objects and builds a picture of human life past. There is less rubbish about right now, finding things whilst we are in lockdown feels poignant. Due to the pandemic over the past weeks, we have only been allowed out to shop or exercise.

5 years of daily photographs looking at life now via the objects we use and discard.

The rubbish pile keeps growing.

#costofliving #shopping #covid_19 #someonesrubbish #someonesrubbishchloejuno

Someone’s Rubbish Copyright Chloe Juno

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CUT FLOWERS: LOCKDOWN, ENGLAND 2020 CHLOE JUNO

Snowy White Chrysanthemums. Supermarket: Morrisons 2 for £5 pounds, St James Street, Brighton 2020.

I love flowers and plants, In previous years I have spent time in Cornwall where I would photograph wildflowers on a cliff-edge in Cornwall with my iPhone, swiss army knife, and a black scarf. Over these strange weeks, I have been given different bunches of flowers which has really lifted my spirits. I sat at my desk this evening looking at the patterns which led me to set up a mini home studio.

Snowy White Chrysanthemums. Morrisons 2 for £5 pounds, St James Street, Brighton 2020.

Copyright Chloe Juno

DOCUMENTING BRITAIN: FEATURE CHRIS DORLEY BROWN

LOCKDOWN, LONDON March, April and May 2020.

I am curating Chris Dorley Brown’s recent work over on Documenting Britain’s Instagram account. Chris has taken to the streets of London whilst we go through this strange time, living through the effects of Covid-19, documenting famous locations in London; places known by many and normally extremely busy, but now devoid of people. I have featured work by Chris before and love the mood he creates within his photography, his framing and composition draws one in to explore the buildings, structures, and roads we use, making everyday locations feel monumental. I have worked in some of the areas Chris has photographed and I am often in London for meetings, it's so odd seeing these busy places so empty and must be even stranger walking around them.

www.documentingbritain.com

Chris set up his own photographic practice in 1984 concentrating on documenting East London. In a series of residencies and commissions focussing on social housing, workplaces, hospitals, and architecture, he has established a substantial archive of images that are re-purposed and re-contextualised for distribution via web, film, exhibition, and publication. https://modrex.com/about

https://modrex.com/publications

THE CORNERS Published by Hoxton Mini Press (May 2018)

THE LONGEST WAY ROUND Published by Overlapse (Nov 2015)

DRIVERS IN THE 1980s Published by Hoxton Mini Press (May 2015)

THE EAST END IN COLOUR 1960 -1980 Published by Hoxton Mini Press (Nov 2017)

Piccadilly Circus, April, 2020 Featuring Copyright Chris Dorley Brown https://modrex.com/

feature https://www.instagram.com/documentingbritain/

London 2020 Copyright Chris Dorley Brown

feature https://www.instagram.com/documentingbritain/

Wentworth Street, Aldgate, London March 2020 Copyright Chris Dorley Brown https://modrex.com/

feature https://www.instagram.com/documentingbritain/

Shoreditch, Poster by Mark Titchner, May 2020 Copyright Chris Dorley Brown https://modrex.com/

feature https://www.instagram.com/documentingbritain/

Scrutton Street, Shoreditch, May 2020 Copyright Chris Dorley Brown https://modrex.com/

feature https://www.instagram.com/documentingbritain/

OPEN CALL : LIFE ON BRIGHTON SEAFRONT

I’m working with Brighton Seafront Heritage Trust curating a photo archive project.

Joining in with #MuseumfromHome a whole day run by @museumsassociation and @bbcarts we are excited to take the opportunity to announce our OPEN CALL : LIFE ON BRIGHTON SEAFRONT
Looking for photos and memories, also work by photographers documenting Brighton seafront and anyone who has an archive of photos hidden away.
We would love to see your photography, family photos. postcards the ones that bring back memories, anything taken from the 1950’s to now. We are collecting material for an exhibition and publication to take place in 2021. Our aim is to build an ongoing contemporary visual archive of everyday life. #livingmemories 
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Brighton residents old and new, holidaymakers will have a relationship with the seafront and we would love to build something that celebrates how the seafront enriches us as a town. Photos can be of anything, we would like to build a collection that creates a representation of real-life #lifeonbrightonseafront Fishing, Work, Love, Playtime, Swimming, Clubbing, Pubs, Holidays, Hen / Stag dos, and the list goes on. @btnseafront .
Email Images to chloe@seafrontheritage.co.uk
or Hashtag #brightonseafrontphotos
Deadline: Rolling Deadline until further notice.
Add: Location, Date, and any memories you have.
Curator Chloe Juno @chloejuno
Assistant Curator Shannon Wilson .
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#btnseafront #everydaylife #chloejuno #fishingquartergallery
#brightonseafrontheritagetrust #brightonseafrontmemories #oralhistory #photography #documentary #westpier #fishingmuseum #lidos #thebeach #virtualmuseum #socialhistory #fisherman #oralhistory #lifenow #1950s #1960s #1970s #1980s #1990s #2000s #2010 #2020 #lifenow #documentingbritain

Brighton Beach, Chloe Juno, 2019

CREATIVE REVIEW MAGAZINE: DOCUMENTING BRITAIN FEATURE

Two exciting things happened, I was interviewed for Creative Review magazine by Mark Sinclair for the February / March Truth and Lies Issue 1 Volume 40, looking at ‘Documenting the Now.’ I was asked about my curation on Documenting Britain Instagram and ‘Bloodied Coat’ from ‘Someone’s Rubbish’ was selected alongside other contributors to Documenting Britain, such as Math Roberts street photography and Paul Russell’s County Fair. It’s an 11-page feature with interviews and photos by Robert Law, Huck Magainze, Danielle Peck, Clementine Schneidermann also looking at the work done at the Martin Parr Foundation. The article explores the regular supply of indie mags and Instagram accounts that are keeping the medium of photographing everyday life very much alive and focuses in on platforms like Documenting Britain and the photographers who are out there passionately recording life now.

As a photographer and curator, I put my heart and energy into documentary photography, I know there is an urgency to keep everyday life alive via photography. It’s encouraging to see this subject explored in print and given recognition in Creative Review.

‘Mark Sinclair examines the art of documentary photography today, and whether it has been eclipsed by selfies, he asks has our habit of photographing everyday life diminished’.

#lifenow #documentingthenow

#documentingbritain

CREATIVE REVIEW

DOCUMENTING THE NOW / DOCUMENTING BRITAIN

Creative Review, Documenting the Now, Photography Math Roberts, Chloe Juno, and Paul Russell www.documentingbritain.com

Creative Review, Documenting the Now, Photography Robert Law.

DOCUMENTING BRITAIN : BUSKER; Hull by AARON THOMPSON

Busker, Saturday night, Hull 25.01.20 I Love how the busker is amazed by the crowd he has pulled!

By  @whatwouldwolvesdo #joy #dance #hull #saturdaynight #sundaymorning 

I have been following Aaron for a while now on Instagram, he has a great page where he is sharing photos of old plastic bags he has been collecting @carry_a_bag_man I love graphic design and the bags are a real visual treat. I spotted his video of Hull at night, it made me smile, life’s spontaneous moments. Thank you Aaron for allowing us to share.  
Documenting Britain www.documentingbritain.com is a creative response to the British Isles by a group of documentary photographers whose collective purpose is to deliver a critical record of the islands on which we live. Our Instagram feed features your work - we are looking for photo stories, long-term projects and in-depth observations of life in Britain. Please Inbox if you have a submission.
Documenting Britain run by @alastairkcook and @chloejuno #documentinglife #documentingbritain 

Thank you to all of you who continue to submit.