Lost Found

Lost Found emerged from a photographic still life exploration of objects: everyday, forgotten, sentimental, edible, natural, and antique. Through playful arrangements, familiar forms are removed from their usual contexts and brought together into something beautiful, absurd, and unfamiliar. The project is rooted in a shared fascination with making and finding beauty within oddity, decay, and the mundane. Objects are found, rescued, purposefully bought, and pulled from everyday places, allowing each photograph to tell its own surrealist story.

Lost Found developed as an evolving collaborative process, a way to make images freely and follow unexpected ideas. Shot on medium format film over two years, the project opened up a space for play and discovery. Presented as both a physical exhibition of original hand-printed works and a photographic zine, it reflects an ongoing process of building images together and evolving our own aesthetic identities.

About Otto Masters

Otto Masters is a photographer based in London whose work moves between fashion, still life, fine art and documentary. Working between observation and construction, his images often capture moments in between, with a focus on shadow, atmosphere and the fleeting beauty of the everyday.

About Kiara Gourlay

Kiara Gourlay is a London-based prop stylist and prop maker whose practice explores objects through material contrast, humour and visual tension. Her work often sits between attraction and repulsion, creating still lives that feel both seductive and unsettling, while examining how objects can simultaneously hold emotion, memory, and discord.

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