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Do you get up at 8:35, ride on the number 34, enter your six-digit password into the works computer and so begin another day. Everything we do seems to be broken down to numbers, national insurance, sort code, pin, buses, roads, calorie intake, time of day, phone... the list is seemingly endless. In the 1967 TV series The Prisoner Patrick McGoohan famously said, I am not a number I am a free man. 41 years later I cant help but look at our society’s reliance on numbers. Numbers are everywhere and my life’s experiences seem to be broken down to numbers on forms. It may not be a form I see but at some point almost everything I do becomes a number and that number gets logged on a form of some sort.

What would happen if I started to collect these numbers? I’m not keeping count, but if I start photographing the numbers we see as we pass along life’s highway how far will I get? What follows is an attempt to find out.