Photographer Documents All 12,795 Items That She Owns
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- 11 Jul 2022
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Barbara Iweins cataloged everything that she owns by photographing all 12,795 items in her house.
Going from room to room, she spent almost five years documenting every single object she owns, from loose Lego bricks and old keychains to remote controls, kitchen utensils, and miscellaneous knick-knacks.
After Iweins went through a divorce and moved house for the 11th time, she decided to take on the mammoth task of indexing and classifying her belongings by color, material, and frequency of use.
The resulting 12,795 images, made into a book, offer an intimate, unfiltered self-portrait that is an antidote to today’s social media world where “everybody’s trying to protect themselves by showing an idealized version of their lives,” Iweins tells CNN.
Iweins found that blue is the dominant color in her house, accounting for 16 percent of all items, while 22 percent of her clothes are black. 43 percent of items in her bathroom are made from plastic, while some 90 percent of the cables in her house are never used, and 19 percent of her books remain unread.
The photographer says the project made her realize she bought things that she already had, items that were lost, such as metal combs used to extract headlice from her children’s hair. Read More...
