Artist Statement
The most fascinating aspect of photography for me is the fact that it so closely resembles reality. In my work I like to explore what constitutes fact and fiction in a photograph by trying to blur the limits between reality and fiction. Although the photographs represent an actual place, the way I photograph them makes these landscapes look like model train sets.
In this series of photographs I try to play with the illusion of real and fake in the landscape by utilizing a shallow depth of field to make some parts of the image soft and others in focus. The colours in the photographs are tweaked to look like old postcards and recall a certain American dream, an idealized view of an immediate future typical of the 1950’s .

 

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