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Jardin du Luxembourg, 2011
Ashbridges Bay, 2011
Strasbourg, 2006/12
By the harbour, 2007
Children's pool, 2007
MoMA on the free evening, 2009
Union Station rush hour, 2009
Capitoline Hill, 2010
Trafalgar Square, 2010
"The Tourist" series, Switzerland, Snapshots, 2006/2012
In this work directly above, I took what appear to be a series of faded tourist snapshots I took of European fountains and put the same image of myself in each scene. By presenting moments that never actually existed, I am rewriting the memory of a foreign holiday.
I used a 1950's era camera purchased at a flea market to capture these images. It uses only one exposure setting and focal length. Mid-format film was fitted into the camera, the recommended film no longer being available, hence the distortion in some images. The film was cross-processed, then digitally scanned and manipulated.
All images are available at approximately 24" x 34" for $500 unframed or 9" x 14" for $200 unframed. Limited editions of 3.
Archival pigment prints.
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