Dunedin photographer Alan Dove said he found something intriguing about the old shoes and rusty cans littering the city's streets and footpaths.
``I go riding on the weekends and I might see something. If it looks interesting I might pick it up and bring it back to the studio.
``It's a very deliberate process of taking the piece out of its environment and bringing it back to the studio and photographing it.''
One of the ideas behind Dove's Fringe exhibition was to ``celebrate very mundane things'', such as squashed
cans, he said.
It was also a comment on how people polluted the streets with rubbish, he said, ``although I don't want to be moralistic, because no-one's perfect''.
The exhibition was named ``Dancing Crumpled Odd Pair'', after some gloves he found which ``looked like they were dancing''.
Most of the photos were given tongue-in-cheek names, he said.
``For example this can of Coke is called `Dispose of Properly', because it says that up here on top of the can, and obviously it hasn't been.
``If you look at the cans and the messages that are on there I sort of see a quiet humour, especially if you kind of take it out of context.''
The project left him with bags filled with rubbish.
``I will throw them out one day, but haven't got around to it.''
• ``Dancing Crumpled Odd Pair'' is on every day until Saturday at Alan Dove Photography studio in George St from noon until 6pm.
