An ongoing exploration of flea and street markets as spaces where value, identity, and human behaviour are continuously negotiated. I am drawn to the act of exchange itself – people searching for the cheapest objects, assigning meaning in deeply subjective ways, and revealing how worth is shaped less by price and more by personal need, memory, or desire. What one person considers disposable, another recognises as essential or emotionally charged.
Visually, markets are dense and chaotic environments where social classes, subcultures, colours, and belief systems collide. Gestures, clothing, hairstyles, tattoos, costume jewellery, and religious objects coexist in compressed, often overwhelming spaces. Yet within this apparent disorder, I am drawn to moments of instinctive order – where people and objects align in ways that feel unplanned but visually balanced. Buyers drift passively until something captures their attention, while others move with purpose, intent on uncovering a hidden artifact. These contrasting rhythms shape the visual and emotional texture of the market.
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