Umbrella Amnesty, is a collection of umbrellas and their photographs from Glasgow and beyond collected from late summer 2005 to early autumn 2006.
I'd been interested in all the umbrellas you see lying about, and fascinated by how people seem to rely on such an unreliable way of keeping dry, given how in Glasgow a good downpour is usually accompanied by a good blow. I read recently that climate change will likely mean Glasgow becoming the wettest place in the UK, making this an appropriate place to study umbrellas.
Also, a part of the fascination that we all share is the obvious schadenfraude of watching a person on the losing side of a fight with an umbrella caught in a gale and wanting to turn itself inside out.
That said, it still takes a lot to give up hope and abandon the thing that stands between you and a good soaking: a combination of frustration, aggravation and realisation perhaps.
I decided then to build up a collection of abandoned umbrellas - a self imposed umbrella amnesty on behalf of their owners - but to first photograph each one as I found it.
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