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Every time I went on any vacation, I would enjoy most of my vacation from behind my camera lens. The number of photographs I take on any given day of a vacation are from 5,000-10,000. Just uploading them to a portable external hard drive each day is a real feat and you should see the size of my memory cards!
And, why, you might wonder, would I have to take so many photographs? Well, I'll tell you, I have an innate fear that if I don't capture everything I see, it will vanish and cease to exist. My trips are like a glimpse into other lives and timelines.
Over time, I have learned the great skill of laughing at myself. I started to see the absurdity of taking so many photos...now, when am I ever going to find the time to look through all these? Well, I'm finding the time. I'm finding the time right now. And, let me tell you, after looking through the photostreams of those who are taking photos of Paris every day, like Jacques Delaire, for example, I can't wait to get back there and take 100,000 more photos.
But, I also have an appreciation for the fact that these photos may not ever happen again, not just because there is something about street photography that captures a specific spontaneous moment of time but also because we're at a point now where I'm wondering if we'll ever truly get out of this pandemic and how much we've all changed since it started. There have always been economic and political anxieties world wide...but this pandemic has changed our brains in the way we consider reality and also mortality.
In another timeline, I am dancing in the streets of Paris with a wine glass in one hand and a beautiful cat in my arms. In that timeline, I'm with two friends I really care about and we're singing about stupid yet important things and it doesn't matter if we fall all over ourselves or on our faces. Because, we're together in Paris.
Check out Jacques Delaire's photostream here:
www.flickr.com/photos/155081845@N07/
**All photos are copyrighted in all timelines**
this picture was inspired by my friend antonio iacobelli (see comments) and by some other pictures i've seen online
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"Do you want the door in the middle of this wall?"
"No, put it in anywhere. I hate people with OCD."
Hasselblad 500CM, Ilford HP5, R09 @ 20deg C 50+1
Since MONK is my all time favorite show and LEGO bricks my hobby, I just had to do this!
If you, like me, would like to have a LEGO Adrian Monk someday make sure to vote for "Mr. Monk Is The Real OCD" via LEGO Ideas! ideas.lego.com/projects/07cc9fdd-c712-4fff-af98-75368f449f11
This is a part of my AP Studio Art Concentration and the Concentration is Addictions.
Addiction: OCD/Cleaning
Model: Karolina Kowalczyk
About the Addiction:
What OCD stands for is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, there are many types of it but what it seems like in America now is cleanliness is one of the top forms. It gets so bad where people who are obsessive of cleaning can not function in their daily lives until their problem is resolved. About 3.3 Million people in America have this disorder which also results as an Addiction.
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There is more of this collection to come from now till April. (About 20)
Message me if you want to be kept up to date with the newest ones or more information and help)
Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental disorder characterized by intrusive thoughts that produce anxiety, by repetitive behaviors aimed at reducing anxiety, or by combinations of such thoughts (obsessions) and behaviors (compulsions). The symptoms of this anxiety disorder range from repetitive hand-washing and extensive hoarding to preoccupation with sexual, religious, or aggressive impulses. These symptoms can be alienating and time-consuming, and often cause severe emotional and economic loss. Although the acts of those who have OCD may appear paranoid and come across to others as psychotic, OCD sufferers often recognize their thoughts and subsequent actions as irrational, and they may become further distressed by this realization. -Wikipedia
Think Monk.
Everyone has a little case of O.C.D. (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). For me, it’s the pens that I write with: I always have to have a black 0.7mm Pilot G-2 Pen (or a 1.0mm is awesome too!).
I found out one of my Supervisors cannot stand to have the Eos egg lip balms sitting there and not be lined up perfectly. It just drives her crazy. In the last 2 months we’ve been doing several interviews and I would sometimes put the egg on the table (unaligned) in the middle of the interview. At first she thought I was being mean, but it forced her to focus on the interview and the interviewee. It was just a side effect that I got to drive her OCD crazy!
Theme: Musings And Ramblings
Year Seven Of My 365 Project
It is OCD week (7th - 13th Feb) and I ask you to help raise OCD awareness Let's get OCD noticed
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is the name given to a condition in which people experience repetitive and upsetting thoughts and/or behaviours. OCD has two main features: obsessions and compulsions.
I have suffered with OCD and anxiety as an adult. It is a crippling illness that affects not only the sufferer, but the support group around them.
To explain my PAD - one of my obsessions whilst pregnant with my daughter was to note down on a 'post it note' the time (15.35, 15.43, 15.57 etc) when I felt her move during the day and night. I would experience complete panic if I didn't feel her move for around 30 minutes. It was a very dark time for me and my family. My Mum cared for me towards the end of my pregnancy with the amazing support of her work (NHS - thank you!). My therapy finished when my daughter was 9 months old and I am pleased to say I am very 'well' right now.
Thinking of those struggling right now x
It seems as though I am faced with an ongoing inflow of new reading material every week, and the continued burden of this accumulating madness can lead to an unhealthy, impulsive, compelling, obsession of collecting the volumes needed to complete the concluded series or to supplement the unended anecdotes. Manic episode perhaps? It would be reasonable to infer that I've simply gone mad like a Lovecraftian archetype.... I need a bigger bookshelf.
Here's what's new to my table:
Red Sonja Volume 1: Queen of the Plagues
-Gail Simone (Batgirl, Birds of Prey) gives the iconic fantasy heroine a fresh new attitude! Red Sonja, the She-Devil with a Sword, intends to pay back a blood debt owed to the one man who has gained her respect... even if it means leading a doomed army to their certain deaths! Who is Dark Annisia, and how has this fearsome warrior accomplished what no god nor demon has been able to do: force Sonja to her knees in surrender? An epic tale of blood, lust, and vengeance, Queen of the Plagues takes Red Sonja from the depths of her own grave to the heights of battlefield glory. Featuring Gail Simone's Red Sonja # 1 script!
Rat Queens, Vol. 1: Sass and Sorcery
-Who are the Rat Queens? A pack of booze-guzzling, death-dealing battle maidens-for-hire, and they’re in the business of killing all god’s creatures for profit. It’s also a darkly comedic sass-and-sorcery series starring Hannah the Rockabilly Elven Mage, Violet the Hipster Dwarven Fighter, Dee the Atheist Human Cleric and Betty the Hippy Smidgen Thief. This modern spin on an old school genre is a violent monster-killing epic that is like Buffy meets Tank Girl in a Lord of the Rings world on crack!
this is totally a guy thing and something that the ladies will not be interested in!!!
i think this one is even better than when i reached 70000 miles in scotland last year.
of course i may just be totally OCD....
I thought I would love this challenge. I'm slightly OCD and I love to organize things and restore order to chaos, even thought most of my house is in chaos. So I used a straight edge and got all of the crayons perfectly lined up so that their tops and bottoms are perfectly even, only to realize that the labels ARE NOT LINED UP EVENLY ON EVERY CRAYON!!! The black lines are uneven! Rather than spending another half an hour trying slide all the labels to make them even, (Don't thing it didn't occur to me!) I decided to embrace my wild side and leave them as is. You people who are not OCD probably don't even know what I'm talking about. Just another reminder that we should not knock ourselves out too much while striving for perfection!
ODC 238 the art of cleanup
Feel free to use this image in whatever way you wish! I would be grateful for a clickable credit link to www.aboblist.com. Thank you!
Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental disorder characterized by intrusive thoughts that produce anxiety, by repetitive behaviors aimed at reducing anxiety, or by a combination of such thoughts (obsessions) and behaviors (compulsions). The symptoms of this anxiety disorder include repetitive hand-washing; extensive hoarding; preoccupation with sexual or aggressive impulses, or with particular religious beliefs; aversion to odd numbers; and nervous habits, such as opening a door and closing it a certain number of times before one enters or leaves a room. These symptoms can be alienating and time-consuming, and often cause severe emotional and economic loss. The acts of those who have OCD may appear paranoid and come across to others as psychotic. However, OCD sufferers generally recognize their thoughts and subsequent actions as irrational, and they may become further distressed by this realization.
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Inspired by www.mtv.com/onair/truelife/assets/flipbook_season8/ocd/oc...
Named after and dedicated to a friend's sister.
Only 12 seconds long, so i didn't add music. :)
hahah, you can see the writing on my wrist + the mysterious cut that's on my arm and i don't know why...
Lifetime Dream # 137 of my list of 155: I will keep a collection of 500 G-2 pen refills, displaying them in a nice wood casing, to show how dedicated I am toward perfectionism in my writing and a representation to how much writing I have accomplished in my life.
I have been accused of being OCD about a few things in my life and I will admit that this is a dead-on description. I am “particular” (that’s the word people with OCD use) about a few things as this photo blog will showcase: guitar picks, guitar strings, and yes- even the pens that I use. I know it might sound like a silly dream to have, but for the amount of writing that I do- I am pretty picky about the “tools of my trade” as one might say.
Here’s a good example of the amount of writing that I do. This picture only shows 2/3 of my first journal… 2,000 pages:
www.flickr.com/photos/67522976@N00/4652182215/in/set-7215...
I used to work for a family-owned wholesale distribution company and so I had the opportunity to meet with several different vendors and try their products. Bic, Pilot, Zebra, Pentel, Papermate… we dealt with them all. It seemed like every pen I sampled either skipped or was inconsistent with the ink flow, and that always seemed to find a way to annoy me; but I’ve never had that problem with G-2 Pens from Pilot. I love their new bold pen that is a 1.0mm. For journaling I’ll only use the 0.7mm. I guess even within the OCD there’s OCD!
I am over half way to my goal of 500 pens being used. I need to build a better casing for these pen refills and seal the barrels (you can see in the glass where the remaining ink leaked out of some). It may be OCD, but it’s effective. When I look at how many I’ve gone through I get a sense of pride, and a renewed sense of direction to write even more!
Remy is home from his stay at the veterinarian's clinic. Remy was on IV fluids for two days, and he had a series of glucose tests on his blood and urine. He does NOT have Diabetes. His kidneys are fine.
He's crazy.
Remy suffers from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. For an unknown reason, he pulls out his own fur. Remy grooms normally...and then grabs a great mouthful of hair and jerks it out. He's been doing this since he was eleven months old. At the time, we noticed that his tail was getting really scraggly as he was coming up to his first birthday. At first we assumed that he was losing his summer coat prior to growing his winter one. It wasn't until I kept finding great hunks of hair about the house that we started to pay greater attention.
Remy was caught in the act of pulling out the hair in his tail and along his sides by Dave and I a few times. We took him to the vet's office. At first it was thought that he might have a skin allergy, A shot of Cortisone later, and that was ruled out. We also ruled out his food, the shampoo that was used at the Groomer's, and aggression with Molly and Emile as causes to the hair loss.
Finally, he was diagnosed with Obsessive-Compulsive DIsorder. As we couldn't alter the cause, we decided to medicate for a cure. He was put on a drug called Clomicalm (Clomipramine). His dose was 2.5 mgs daily.
This seemed to do the trick. Remy stopped his excessive/destructive grooming, and his fur grew back. He regained the long, lush flowing tail that makes Maine Coons famous.
In September, Dave quit smoking cigarettes. (yay Dave!) He was no longer going out onto the back deck for a cigarette multiple times a day. That meant that the cats were no longer going on the deck multiple times daily. (Our cats are allowed onto our kitty proofed back deck when they are supervised.) Remy showed his displeasure at this change in circumstances by starting to rip out his fur again.
The vet increased his dosage of the drug, and told Dave to take the cats out for "fresh air" a few times a day. It seemed to be working, until the crisis with Emile.
We were paying so much attention to Emile and his dental problems that we failed to notice that Remy had practically stopped eating. Remy lost two pounds before we took him to the vet's.
All of our cats see two vets at the same clinic. Dr Todd Morgan and Dr Rachel Thomas have been looking after the boys since they came home with us.
Dr Morgan saw Remy's weight loss and decided to change Remy's medication from the Clomicalm to Prozac. I had the prescription filled at my own pharmacy, where it was dispensed in a Cherry flavoured syrup. (Children's Prozac was the only dose low enough for the cat)
The Prozac made Remy foam at the mouth, and it was stopped immediatley. Remy lost another pound while exhaustive tests were run to see why he was so ill. Kidney disease, a viral infection, and Diabetes were all examined.
Remy came back negative for everything. His urine glucose, at one point, was very high, but that ended up being attributed to stress. It turns out that Remy should have been weaned from the Clomicalm before starting the Prozac. One of the withdrawl symptoms from the Clomicalm was anorexia.
It has been decided that Remy must regain his weight before we try him on any other type of behaviour modification therapy.
As I write this, Remy is purring while he sleeps on the window perch beside Dave's desk. He's sleeping with his tail curled over his nose. There is less fur on his tail today than there was yesterday, but we're going to take everything one day at a time.
B Hotel has a unique façade with asymmetric windows that drove me crazy at first. To be fair, I now find the architecture striking.
Mens public toilets are a very hostile situation to be in, there are many unwritten rules which we all abide by, such as: not speaking to the fellow next to you unless it’s a really good friend, and the obvious rule of not looking at another mans’ genitals. The male public toilet is also a very unclean environment with only 5% of males cleaning their hands enough to destroy infectious germs after using the bathroom.
It’s no wonder then that due to the hygiene of males my brain made an irrational decision to not use all of these toilets pictured for defecation. I generally thought the large majority of males didn’t defecate in public, however after some research I found out this wasn’t entirely true and it was in fact myself who had the problem. After finding out I had Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, known as OCD for short, I’ve been trying to find out and rationalise my irrational thoughts in certain situations. These ten toilets are a few of a large percentage of toilets I wont use and are a pictorial explanation of unsuitable toilets for myself. The series pictured in the style of Jeff Brouws explores my problem numbering the most likely to be used as #1 and the least likely at #10
This crude but exploring series, pictures toilets I have encountered within the Midlands over a four-week window. The toilets have been captured exactly how they where left, giving the viewer the same view I had. Some of the toilets pictured, for the majority of people maybe a perfect toilet to use, however for myself they didn’t comply to my mental list. My mental check list is made from looking at things such as, if the toilet is clean and well stocked or if it was in a quiet or busy location. Some of the toilets featured are truly terrible for example #8 was a toilet clogged from a nappy being flushed. I feel the series provided an outlet for myself to explore the subject but also give to the viewer a talking point and scale to which toilet they would deem acceptable and why to this very taboo subject which is in fact a very natural part of life which everyone does.
Below every image is a global positioning system number (GPS) which gives the exact co-ordinates of each toilet (removed for privacy on the online series), I felt it was important to tell people where the toilet was if they really wanted to know, but not by the forms of text where a viewer could read the name and identify with the image. The toilets pictured were taken in various locations, such as: educational, customer, employee, tenants, homeowners and visitor environments.
Thanks to everyone that helped in this project and allowed access and permission to shoot.
Mens public toilets are a very hostile situation to be in, there are many unwritten rules which we all abide by, such as: not speaking to the fellow next to you unless it’s a really good friend, and the obvious rule of not looking at another mans’ genitals. The male public toilet is also a very unclean environment with only 5% of males cleaning their hands enough to destroy infectious germs after using the bathroom.
It’s no wonder then that due to the hygiene of males my brain made an irrational decision to not use all of these toilets pictured for defecation. I generally thought the large majority of males didn’t defecate in public, however after some research I found out this wasn’t entirely true and it was in fact myself who had the problem. After finding out I had Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, known as OCD for short, I’ve been trying to find out and rationalise my irrational thoughts in certain situations. These ten toilets are a few of a large percentage of toilets I wont use and are a pictorial explanation of unsuitable toilets for myself. The series pictured in the style of Jeff Brouws explores my problem numbering the most likely to be used as #1 and the least likely at #10
This crude but exploring series, pictures toilets I have encountered within the Midlands over a four-week window. The toilets have been captured exactly how they where left, giving the viewer the same view I had. Some of the toilets pictured, for the majority of people maybe a perfect toilet to use, however for myself they didn’t comply to my mental list. My mental check list is made from looking at things such as, if the toilet is clean and well stocked or if it was in a quiet or busy location. Some of the toilets featured are truly terrible for example #8 was a toilet clogged from a nappy being flushed. I feel the series provided an outlet for myself to explore the subject but also give to the viewer a talking point and scale to which toilet they would deem acceptable and why to this very taboo subject which is in fact a very natural part of life which everyone does.
Below every image is a global positioning system number (GPS) which gives the exact co-ordinates of each toilet (removed for privacy on the online series), I felt it was important to tell people where the toilet was if they really wanted to know, but not by the forms of text where a viewer could read the name and identify with the image. The toilets pictured were taken in various locations, such as: educational, customer, employee, tenants, homeowners and visitor environments.
Thanks to everyone that helped in this project and allowed access and permission to shoot.
Down a Brighton side street - no more work for me :-)
This is in Providence Place - Google maps still shows it there :)
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I'm more than just a little OCD, in fact I have CDO. It's just like OCD but in alphabetical order. The way it should be, lol.
Seriously I am very OCD, it effects me in so many ways. I'll give you a few examples...
Firstly I am very particular about things being even, level, straight, symmetrical etc, I straighten pictures all the time, not just my own, but my friends and family too, even waiting in the dentist or doctors waiting room :(
Also I'm a bit particular about numbers, if I go to the gym or the swimming pool I have to have locker number 88, you see 88 is a nice even, symmetrical number. 8 is ok if 88 is already taken, as 8 is still an even and symmetrical number, but there's only one number and pairs are better.
I like to get up in the morning on the hour exactly, half past is ok, and quarter past or quarter to is kind of acceptable, but dead on the hour is better. If I'm supposed to get up at 7.00am and overlay, I have to wait until quarter past, there is no way I could get up at 7.03 for example, eeek.
My eternal dilemma is how to arrange mybooks on bookshelves, tallest on the right and shortest on the left, I did try alphabetical order by author, but the varying heights was just too much for me, lol. However my CD's are all in alphabetical order, they're a nice uniform size so that's good.
Christmas is a bit of a minefield, I wait until it's almost Christmas to put up my Christmas cards up, tallest in the middle getting consecutively shorter as they go outwards in the line, oblong ones in one place, square in another, lol, however that means re-ordering them every time a new card arrives, hence not putting them up until almost Christmas Eve. One year a friend sent me a hexagonal card, well I only had the one like that, I didn't know where to put it, she later admitted that she did it on purpose, as she knows what I'm like, some friend eh?
I have to check that I've locked my door when I leave the house 3 times, which is strange as I don't like odd numbers, but three times it is, lol.
I could go on and on, I guess I'm a little strange, the thing is it really doesn't cause any problems at all. Mind you, I've been like it so long it's a fact of life now.
As a friend of mine says, "If you're happy and OCD wash your hands" PMSL
Taken for June 2009 MSH - A little OCD.
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Mens public toilets are a very hostile situation to be in, there are many unwritten rules which we all abide by, such as: not speaking to the fellow next to you unless it’s a really good friend, and the obvious rule of not looking at another mans’ genitals. The male public toilet is also a very unclean environment with only 5% of males cleaning their hands enough to destroy infectious germs after using the bathroom.
It’s no wonder then that due to the hygiene of males my brain made an irrational decision to not use all of these toilets pictured for defecation. I generally thought the large majority of males didn’t defecate in public, however after some research I found out this wasn’t entirely true and it was in fact myself who had the problem. After finding out I had Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, known as OCD for short, I’ve been trying to find out and rationalise my irrational thoughts in certain situations. These ten toilets are a few of a large percentage of toilets I wont use and are a pictorial explanation of unsuitable toilets for myself. The series pictured in the style of Jeff Brouws explores my problem numbering the most likely to be used as #1 and the least likely at #10
This crude but exploring series, pictures toilets I have encountered within the Midlands over a four-week window. The toilets have been captured exactly how they where left, giving the viewer the same view I had. Some of the toilets pictured, for the majority of people maybe a perfect toilet to use, however for myself they didn’t comply to my mental list. My mental check list is made from looking at things such as, if the toilet is clean and well stocked or if it was in a quiet or busy location. Some of the toilets featured are truly terrible for example #8 was a toilet clogged from a nappy being flushed. I feel the series provided an outlet for myself to explore the subject but also give to the viewer a talking point and scale to which toilet they would deem acceptable and why to this very taboo subject which is in fact a very natural part of life which everyone does.
Below every image is a global positioning system number (GPS) which gives the exact co-ordinates of each toilet (removed for privacy on the online series), I felt it was important to tell people where the toilet was if they really wanted to know, but not by the forms of text where a viewer could read the name and identify with the image. The toilets pictured were taken in various locations, such as: educational, customer, employee, tenants, homeowners and visitor environments.
Thanks to everyone that helped in this project and allowed access and permission to shoot.
Mens public toilets are a very hostile situation to be in, there are many unwritten rules which we all abide by, such as: not speaking to the fellow next to you unless it’s a really good friend, and the obvious rule of not looking at another mans’ genitals. The male public toilet is also a very unclean environment with only 5% of males cleaning their hands enough to destroy infectious germs after using the bathroom.
It’s no wonder then that due to the hygiene of males my brain made an irrational decision to not use all of these toilets pictured for defecation. I generally thought the large majority of males didn’t defecate in public, however after some research I found out this wasn’t entirely true and it was in fact myself who had the problem. After finding out I had Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, known as OCD for short, I’ve been trying to find out and rationalise my irrational thoughts in certain situations. These ten toilets are a few of a large percentage of toilets I wont use and are a pictorial explanation of unsuitable toilets for myself. The series pictured in the style of Jeff Brouws explores my problem numbering the most likely to be used as #1 and the least likely at #10
This crude but exploring series, pictures toilets I have encountered within the Midlands over a four-week window. The toilets have been captured exactly how they where left, giving the viewer the same view I had. Some of the toilets pictured, for the majority of people maybe a perfect toilet to use, however for myself they didn’t comply to my mental list. My mental check list is made from looking at things such as, if the toilet is clean and well stocked or if it was in a quiet or busy location. Some of the toilets featured are truly terrible for example #8 was a toilet clogged from a nappy being flushed. I feel the series provided an outlet for myself to explore the subject but also give to the viewer a talking point and scale to which toilet they would deem acceptable and why to this very taboo subject which is in fact a very natural part of life which everyone does.
Below every image is a global positioning system number (GPS) which gives the exact co-ordinates of each toilet (removed for privacy on the online series), I felt it was important to tell people where the toilet was if they really wanted to know, but not by the forms of text where a viewer could read the name and identify with the image. The toilets pictured were taken in various locations, such as: educational, customer, employee, tenants, homeowners and visitor environments.
Thanks to everyone that helped in this project and allowed access and permission to shoot.
Mens public toilets are a very hostile situation to be in, there are many unwritten rules which we all abide by, such as: not speaking to the fellow next to you unless it’s a really good friend, and the obvious rule of not looking at another mans’ genitals. The male public toilet is also a very unclean environment with only 5% of males cleaning their hands enough to destroy infectious germs after using the bathroom.
It’s no wonder then that due to the hygiene of males my brain made an irrational decision to not use all of these toilets pictured for defecation. I generally thought the large majority of males didn’t defecate in public, however after some research I found out this wasn’t entirely true and it was in fact myself who had the problem. After finding out I had Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, known as OCD for short, I’ve been trying to find out and rationalise my irrational thoughts in certain situations. These ten toilets are a few of a large percentage of toilets I wont use and are a pictorial explanation of unsuitable toilets for myself. The series pictured in the style of Jeff Brouws explores my problem numbering the most likely to be used as #1 and the least likely at #10
This crude but exploring series, pictures toilets I have encountered within the Midlands over a four-week window. The toilets have been captured exactly how they where left, giving the viewer the same view I had. Some of the toilets pictured, for the majority of people maybe a perfect toilet to use, however for myself they didn’t comply to my mental list. My mental check list is made from looking at things such as, if the toilet is clean and well stocked or if it was in a quiet or busy location. Some of the toilets featured are truly terrible for example #8 was a toilet clogged from a nappy being flushed. I feel the series provided an outlet for myself to explore the subject but also give to the viewer a talking point and scale to which toilet they would deem acceptable and why to this very taboo subject which is in fact a very natural part of life which everyone does.
Below every image is a global positioning system number (GPS) which gives the exact co-ordinates of each toilet (removed for privacy on the online series), I felt it was important to tell people where the toilet was if they really wanted to know, but not by the forms of text where a viewer could read the name and identify with the image. The toilets pictured were taken in various locations, such as: educational, customer, employee, tenants, homeowners and visitor environments.
Thanks to everyone that helped in this project and allowed access and permission to shoot.