- 01
The refrigerator door
Magnets, grocery lists, fingerprints, and the paper you keep meaning to take down.
- 02
The shoes by the entrance
Exactly as they land on a normal day.
- 03
What is on the kitchen counter
The useful clutter is part of the record.
- 04
The view from the sink
You have looked at it hundreds of times. That is the point.
- 05
The chair everyone chooses
Include the worn arm, blanket, or object left beside it.
- 06
The inside of one ordinary drawer
Nothing styled. Open it and take the picture.
- 07
Tonight’s dinner before anyone sits down
Even if it came from a box.
- 08
The light in one room at the end of the day
Photograph the room, not just the sunset.
- 09
The thing you are always moving out of the way
It may be annoying now and strangely dear later.
- 10
Your own hands doing something routine
Folding, chopping, typing, fixing, watering, fastening.
A useful list · Photographs
10 ordinary things to photograph this week
Not the birthday cake. The parts of your life that have become too familiar to look at closely.