Exploring abandonment & belonging within the car boot community through an integrated lens of:
Photography- combing photographs taken to capture car boot culture with found photography; preserving from destruction these raw moments of every-day real world participation discovered within the car boot environment. Entrusting a perpetuation of their stories through our own reflections of them, the elicitation of feelings in response to them & an experience of their transformative power arising from our own sense of meaning, connection & belonging.
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an Occupational Perspective - considering the everyday meaningful activities that occupy a persons time; individually & collectively. Acknowledging these subjective constructed experiences occur within a one-time unique context which photography can capture. Integrating within this, an aim to expand the under-researched concept of belonging within occupational science.

Luci is an enthusiast of the everyday ordinary. Growing up in Leicester, moving to Stoke-on-Trent to complete a degree in Sociology before following free parties & friends to Brighton for the summer in 1996. It has been a long summer as she's still here with her two amazing kids & her dedication to developing her role as a senior lecturer of occupational therapy. Every part of this journey has been building a path to this project, founded in her own early experiences of belonging & abandonment which are being processed & creatively understood through the relatability of & immersion in car boot culture.