Man Spends His Free Time Photographing Lost Gloves

Photo: Mark Leigh/SWNS

The married father of two works in works in marketing and is also a published author, but he spends most of his free time hunting for lost gloves to photograph. His extensive collection features the usual knitted gloves lost at the train station or near schools, but also unique and outright bizarre pieces, like a glove graveyard he discovered on one of his many hunts off the beaten path.

“One of the weirdest things I’ve seen was at New Romney beach in Kent,” Leigh recalls. There was a grassy area by the sand with a long fence, and on every post there was a glove – it was amazing. There must’ve been about 30. It was like a glove graveyard, the photo has pride of place in my collection. I don’t know who put them there or why they were there, but it was like a shrine to lost gloves.”

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Although his wife and kids find Mark’s hobby odd, they are also proud of his achievements and find his glove photo collection endearing.

“My children find it quite odd, but when I have a story in the paper or online, they’re inwardly proud but outwardly sneering,” the collector says. “If I’m out with my wife, I have to stop and take a picture, but she endures it. She’s probably just grateful it’s not an expensive hobby, the only cost is of time and ridicule.”