Shoes on the Lam
Since about 2016, I’ve been taking photos of Berlin’s fugitive shoes. For a while, I posted them on Instagram with the hashtag #shoesonthelam. And before long, I started to get submissions of other shoes in other places from friends and strangers. I deleted Instagram a long time ago, but I’ve continued to take photos of street shoes—now equally free of feet and hashtags—and have amassed hundreds.
My photos aren’t very good, but snapping shoes on the lam has become a ritual for me, a small piece of nonsense that punctuates days. As I have no intention of returning to Instagram, I’ve decided to share my collection of shoes on the lam here. I’ll keep adding more, bit by bit, as and when I can. I cameo occasionally as a reflection, or a hem, or a pair of feet.
Thank you for having a look,
Carrie
8.25am, 30th of August, 2016. Thomasstraße. This might be a beginning.
11.27am, 5th of October, 2016. Graefestraße.
2.50pm, 9th of October, 2016. Pannierstraße.
9.53am, 12th of October, 2016. Hobrechtstraße.
11.30pm, 9th of November, 2016. Outside Fimtheater am Friedrichshain.
08.45am, 21st of November, 2016. Okerstraße.
8.32pm, 29th of November, 2016. Karl-Marx-Straße.
1.20pm, 20th of January, 2017. Jonasstraße.
1.15pm, 12th of February, 2017. Ilsenhof.
3.03pm, 22nd of February, 2017. Hermannstraße.
3.32pm, 4th of March, 2017. Weigandufer.
5.23pm, 25th of March, 2017. Donaustraße.
2.14pm, 7th of April, 2017. Braunschweiger Straße.
2.24pm, 18th of April, 2017. Jonasstraße.
5.27pm, 23rd of April, 2017. Hertzbergstraße.
10.43am, 25th of April, 2017. Photo by Cathy Buckmaster who is an actual photographer. Clearly.
6.53pm, 30th of April 2017. Ilsestraße.
8.35am, 22nd of May, 2017. Schierker Straße.
1.21pm, 25th of May, 2017. Thomasstraße.
5.49pm, 26th of May, 2017. Schierker Straße.
6.36pm, 26th of May, 2017. Jonasstraße.
1.33pm, 21st of June, 2017. Saalestraße (by S Sonnenallee).
6.28pm. 18th of September, 2017. Schierker Straße.
3.19pm, 24th of September, 2017. This looks like Dublin, but I’m not sure where it is or who took it.
9.02pm, 1st of October, 2017. Definitely Dublin (look at that yellow busstop) but not sure who took it. Conor? Anaïs?
11.22am, 2nd of October, 2017. Graefestraße.
07.39am, 10th of October, 2017. Sonnenallee.
9.06am, 7th of October, 2017. Saalestraße.
4.04pm, 14th of October, 2017. Berlin, but I’m not sure where exactly in Berlin. I’m taking guesses.
9.00am, 17th of October, 2017. Körnerpark.
3pm, 18th of November, 2017. Sebastianstraße.
10.11am, 24th of November, 2017. Saalestraße.
3.36pm, 26th of November, 2017. Pflügerstraße.
4.12pm, 1st of December, 2017. Somewhere in Bergmannkiez. Taken by Veronica Milla.
6.09pm, 6th of December, 2017. An IG story, but also Lanzarote. Taken by Karen Birney.
2.49pm, 23rd of October, 2016. Böckhstraße.
08.59am, 23rd of November, 2016. Leinestraße.
12.56pm, 19th of December, 2016. Somewhere in Neukölln.
3.34pm, 7th of January, 2017. Thomasstraße.
4.06pm, 26th of January, 2017. Jonasstraße.
2.28pm, 18th of February, 2017. Pflügerstraße.
2.12pm, 1st of March, 2017. Oppelner Straße.
8.02pm, 8th of March, 2017. Thomasstraße.
3.51pm, 26th of March, 2017. Hermannstraße.
4.42pm, 16th of April, 2017. Pannierstraße.
2.59pm. 22nd of April, 2017. Jonasstraße.
5.35am, 25th of April, 2017. Photo by Tara Power.
3.53pm, 28th of April, 2017. College Green, Dublin. Drive-by photo snapped from a bus by Conor Larkin.
7.40pm, 11th of May, 2017. Karl-Marx-Straße.
8.36am, 24th of May, 2017. Selkestraße.
1.39pm, 26th of May, 2017. Thomasstraße.
5.50pm, 26th of May, 2017. Schierker Straße.
9.38am, 12th of June, 2017. Somewhere in Dublin. I can’t remember who took this.
8.26am, 5th of September, 2017. Elsterstraße.
7.02pm, 18th of September, 2017. Hertastraße.
12.34pm, 30th of September, 2017. Ilsenhof.
10.38am, 2nd of October, 2017. Altenbraker Straße.
12.29pm, 7th of October, 2017. Pflügerstraße.
9.03am, 11th of October, 2017. Saalestraße.
8.22am, 12th of October, 2017. Schierker Straße.
2.17pm, 15th of October, 2017. Tempelhofer Feld.
8.45am, 6th of November, 2017. Siegfried-Aufhäuser-Platz.
10.13am, 19th of November, 2022. Jonasstraße.
1.56pm, 26th of November, 2017. Anita-Berber-Park.
8.43am, 30th of November, 2017. Karl-Marx-Straße.
9.43pm, 5th of December, 2017. Mittelweg.