A text is any object that can be read, or as Halliday and Hasan (1976) notes, a “text is a unit of language in use.”
And, to forage is to search for wild food provisions.
Thus, Foraging for Text documents “language in use” out in the “wild” or in places other than books, such as awnings, street signage, user interface design, television/film, etc.
All photographs were taken by Kameelah Janan Rasheed using one of the following tools: capture signals (screenshots), a disposable camera, a Ricoh camera, iPhone, or Canon 5D camera.