Apologies for the delay in posting week 2 of my Ghetto Unfabulous Project. I took this photo last weekend but have only just got round to blogging it. Here's a little background info: Every town seems to have an affluent, upmarket area as well as a poorer, deprived area. Last weekend I drove around Winchester - particularly the less well off areas looking for something Ghetto Unfabulous to photograph. I came across homes which had a lot of children's toys strewn all over the front gardens and homes with old battered cars on the front lawn which had clearly been there for some time. The trouble is, I'm not doing this project to mock the way people live or to criticise people going about their every day lives. I'm more interested in the way society as a whole have left some areas to become less desirable. The way society leaves perfectly good buildings and communal areas to become an eyesore. I could have photographed the homes I just mentioned but it just didn't feel right. Then I … [Read more...]