Everything we touch in a day, or What the everyday things of an individual can tell us
Artist and photographer Paula Zuccotti has compiled a catalog of things that physically and emotionally accompany a person throughout one day. To do this, she traveled the world and asked people to collect all the things they had touched in the last 24 hours.
Project participants from a wide range of age, cultural, professional and social groups, from a small Japanese child to an Arizona cowboy, helped her document their belongings, arranging them within a single frame. The resulting photographs were included in the series “Everything we touch” and the photo album of the same name. These works are intended to answer the question of whether we can understand someone's life just by looking at the objects with which the person interacted throughout the day.
Everything we touch in a day, or What the everyday things of an individual can tell us Mol, 37 years old, Buenos Aires.Everything we touch in a day, or What the everyday things of an individual can tell us Anna, 2 years old, Tokyo.Everything we touch in a day, or What the everyday things of an individual can tell us Wang, 50 years old, Shanghai.Everything we touch in a day, or What the everyday things of an individual can tell us Steve, 54 years old, Los Angeles.Everything we touch in a day, or What the everyday things of an individual can tell us Santo, 5 years old, London.Everything we touch in a day, or What the everyday things of an individual can tell us Sonya, 32 years old, London.Everything we touch in a day, or What the everyday things of an individual can tell us Piedad, 42 years old, Madrid.Everything we touch in a day, or What the everyday things of an individual can tell us Ana Belen, 33, London.Everything we touch in a day, or What the everyday things of an individual can tell us Mike, 42, London.Everything we touch in a day, or What the everyday things of an individual can tell us Kitty, 25, Melbourne.Everything we touch in a day, or What the everyday things of an individual can tell us Kazari, 21 years old, Tokyo.Everything we touch in a day, or What the everyday things of an individual can tell us Julia, 39 years old, London.Everything we touch in a day, or What the everyday things of an individual can tell us Carlos, 48, Phoenix.Everything we touch in a day, or What the everyday things of an individual can tell us Arlo, 1 year old, London.Everything we touch in a day, or What the everyday things of an individual can tell us Filming things in Shanghai.Everything we touch in a day, or What the everyday things of an individual can tell us Paula Zuccotti arranges things in the background.