title: Tattered and Lost: Vernacular Photographs (Volume 1)
author:  Tattered and Lost 
description: Tattered and Lost is the online identity of one collector of vernacular photography, found photos, vintage snapshots, ephemera, or whatever else you prefer to call them. At the website Tattered and Lost Photographs she shares some of the images shes found at flea markets, antique stores, and estate sales. Seeing the world from a quirky point of view helps her to make sense of some of the odd images she finds.
zlib_text: The third of September this year I spent the evening watching TV in an
  upstairs flat in North London. Some story of love and transfiguration, cropped
  into all the wrong proportions for the small screen. The flat wasn’t mine. It
  belonged to a friend I was staying with. There were French posters on the
  walls, dusty CDs stacked on the old-fashioned sideboard, piles of newspapers
  subsiding day by day into yellowing fans on the carpet. Outside, Tottenham
  stretched away, Greek driving schools, Turkish social clubs. Turn the TV off
  and you could hear nothing. Turn it back on and the film unrolled, passages of
  guilt with lost edges, photographed in white and blue light. At about half
  past eleven the phone rang. I picked it up. “Hello?”
  
  
  It was Isobel Avens.
  
  
  “Oh, China,” she said. She burst into tears.
  
  
  I said: “Can you drive?”
  
  
  “No,” she said.
  
  
  I looked at my watch. “I’ll come and fetch you.”
  
  
  “You can’t,” she said. “I’m here. You can’t come here.”
  
  
  I said: “Be outside, love. Just try 