Fair Thrills!
Fair Thrills!
Over the course of a few years in the mid-2000’s at a time when I was experimenting with color film, small-scale carnivals, amusement parks and state fairs became an ideal setting for photographing vivid and saturated scenes of escapism. Accentuating this surreal setting included using less than ideal color filters: if you shoot with a medium green filter over your lens, things are going to look strange.
It’s not that I actually abused my camera, but there were certainly some rides I could have used better judgment in not taking out of the case and could have been more gentle when advancing the film, even knowing I was operating with malfunctioning equipment was worth the effort: being swept up in the excitement of it all sparks a willingness to be young again.
