Category: Lost and found

Photographs of found objects – lost, abandoned or strayed

Fancy finger glove

Fancy finger glove

[dot_recommends] This grey woolen glove with half fingers and fancy fastenings was laid over a green pipe by the side of the road. Someone’s missing it.

Abandoned clothes

Abandoned clothes

[dot_recommends] Abandoned … or are they? There’s a Swedish tradition of leaving gifts for the Tomte (the house gnome) and perhaps whoever left these was also hoping to help aContinue readingAbandoned clothes

Cuddly post

Cuddly post

[dot_recommends] A lost soft toy waits on a post box outside the Co-op at Wieselgrensplatsen. (A day later it had disappeared.)

Child's wristband or bracelet of plastic cylindrical beads

Wristband

[dot_recommends] Flash illuminated image of a wristband or bracelet of plastic beads dropped on the cobbles of Drottningtorget. [dot_recommends] The wristband in situ by a litter bin.

Red glove

Red glove

[dot_recommends] Winter is the time for lost gloves. See this collection from 2011!

Child's bicycle with broken chain

Unchained joy chained

[dot_recommends] This colourful child’s bicycle represents joy, but the chain has come off. Joy, though unchained, without a chain is yet chained. Or maybe it’s just another sign of firstContinue readingUnchained joy chained

Tree decorated with children's dummies

Sacrifice tree

[dot_recommends] The old Norse used to sacrifice to their gods by hanging offerings in a tree. The tradition seems to live on, though dummies (pacifiers) hang here rather than horsesContinue readingSacrifice tree