“We define ourselves today not through the labour we engage in but through the commodities we consume” (Daunton and Hilton). But what if you can’t afford to consume in the first place? By visiting different car boot sales around East Sussex I have found everything and anything being bought and sold.

From the most personal to most pointless possessions. There is a kind of ‘car boot culture’ where part time traders are selling so as to buy more. Seemingly worthless artefacts are being re-incorporated into a system of exchange where they subsequently gain a new, alternative commercial value. This system supplements the conventional, homogenised trade in commodities that is situated on high-streets across the country.

Inspired by Martin Parr my series of still life documentary pictures looks at the mix up of items on sale, while also considering how their value has changed, their potential history and the cultural ideologies they represent.