A fairground in the off season has an eerie emptiness. Lights flash and music plays, but there are few visitors to bring real life to the artificial life of the attractions. The fairground is revealed as a place of illusions -- full of fake facades, false perspectives, cartoonish shapes, and meaningless patterns.
In this set I again worked with pairing images in different ways. The pairings can be based on related subject matter, similar perspectives, or continuity of form. The variety of possible combinations reflects the fairground's bizarre mix of styles, colors, structures, and styles.
The three fairgrounds represented in this set are Coney Island in New York (2008), the Märchenpark in Heidelberg, Germany (2009), and the Prater in Vienna, Austria (2013).
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