Left luggage

Image (c) John Perivolaris, all rights reserved

Image maker's subgroup co-ordinator Jon Perivolaris has launched a year-long photographic project/blog on the theme of objects of migration, entitled Left Luggage. As he explains:

"An empty suitcase lent for a month each to a series of collaborators. Each one fills the suitcase with objects of their choice and according to the project’s key terms. These are:

Homeland
Journey
Arrival
Destination

The idea for the project was sparked when my mother gave me my grandfather’s monogrammed, leather suitcase. For several months it sat empty on the floor by my desk like an absent presence by my side.

I knew that the suitcase had travelled around the world with my grandfather, who was a sea captain with the Greek merchant navy. Why should it not continue on its travels as a tribute to the memory of Captain John Perivolaris, whose birthday was on the same date as mine?"

see: http://leftluggage.wordpress.com/