A digital anthropology that presents images from eBay listings. Opposed to Instagram, eBay offers its’ users a less manufactured feed. Therefore, when using the platform one is able to investigate and repurpose listed items. Removed from the worlds we circulate as creatives and an assembled taste is afforded to an active browser, with no intention of purchase. Instead, what is exchanged is the exploration of a variety of sources I might have never come across, as the searches are related to the product, not the user. And my engagement with their account instigates further engagement from their target audience, those intending to purchase the product. Therefore, this project portrays eBay’s capacity to be consumed as a tool for research, where the dynamic of social media is forgotten, and the separation of image and creator holds no barometer related to an image based industry.
And from the sea, this project presents images washed onto the shore, like shells in the sand.
Research & Design India Morgan
Words Robert Smith