CHLOE JUNO
Cluster Photography & Print Exhibitor | 2025
BUTTERFLY & ANT | NATURE’S RUBBISH
Chloe Juno is a British artist based in Brighton, UK. Her current long-term project, Someone’s Rubbish, spans ten years of daily photographs examining contemporary life through the objects people discard.
"Many poignant topics run through Juno’s project that can be interpreted as markers of contemporary living—homelessness, drug use, unemployment, marriage, elections, birthdays, right through to the pandemic. The archive being built through this project is a brutal, unedited one. There is sadness in some of Juno’s photographs, a disbelief that they are taken from such a recent time." — @fotofemmeunited
BOXED GLASS | SOMEONE’S RUBBISH
GOLD BALLOONS | SOMEONE’S RUBBISH
Someone’s Rubbish is an ongoing study, with photographs taken daily since 2014. It functions as an archaeology project, a study of human activity, and an analysis of material culture—the things we buy and consume—serving as a field study of a city. (2014–2025, @dodhomagazine)
Her published photobook, Monuments, a collaboration with Gignouxphotos, documents objects left behind by residents of towns scheduled for demolition to make way for the Garzweiler coal mine, which has caused great damage to the communities in its path. She was an artist in residence at Sala 752, Poland, in 2023. Monuments is now held in the Artphelian Collection in Switzerland.
Her work from Bretonside Bus Station Portraits 2000 was exhibited with ART ICON in Corporeality, Paris 2024.
“I explore contemporary life by photographing discarded objects found on the streets of Brighton and Hove in Someone’s Rubbish. I hunt down the items people use and discard, building a street museum of the present. As I search and observe, I reflect on the cost of living in today’s world and the possible stories behind each object.
I document the things we need for play, work, education, health, beauty, food, sex, love, drugs, debts, money, bills, and everyday domestic life. As the collection grows, a broader picture of contemporary life begins to take shape. Over time, I have also realised that many of the objects I am drawn to document are things I have used or relate to in some way.
Patterns emerge within the collection, representing a cross-section of the city. Found objects can serve as markers of the current political and societal climate, offering insight into our world today. Someone’s Rubbish began in 2015 and now contains over 4,000 images.”