Exploring abandonment and 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 everyday 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 and an experience of their transformative power arising from our own sense of meaning, connection and belonging. And an Occupational Perspective – considering the everyday meaningful activities that occupy a persons time; individually and 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 and friends to Brighton for the summer in 1996. It has been a long summer as she's still here with her two amazing kids and 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 and abandonment which are being processed & creatively understood through the relatability of and immersion in car boot culture.