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.
State Fair, 2008 Phoenix, Arizona
Western Idaho State Fair, 2007 Boise, Idaho
69th Annual Tohono O'odham Fair and Rodeo 2007, Sells, Tohono O'odham Nation, Arizona
State Fair, 2008 Phoenix, Arizona
69th Annual Tohono O'odham Fair and Rodeo, 2007 Sells, Tohono O'odham Nation, Arizona
State Fair, 2008 Phoenix, Arizona
State Fair, 2008 Phoenix, Arizona
SantaLand, 2006 Chandler, Arizona
State Fair, 2008 Phoenix, Arizona
State Fair, 2008 Phoenix, Arizona
Western Idaho State Fair, 2007 Boise, Idaho
State Fair, 2008 Phoenix, Arizona
68th Annual Tohono O'odham Fair and Rodeo, 2006 Sells, Tohono O'odham Nation, Arizona
State Fair, 2008 Phoenix, Arizona
68th Annual Tohono O'odham Fair and Rodeo, 2006 Sells, Tohono O'odham Nation, Arizona
State Fair, 2008 Phoenix, Arizona
SantaLand, 2006 Chandler, Arizona
69th Annual Tohono O'odham Fair and Rodeo, 2007 Sells, Tohono O'odham Nation, Arizona
Western Idaho State Fair, 2007 Boise, Idaho
SantaLand, 2007 Chandler, Arizona
SantaLand, 2006 Chandler, Arizona
69th Annual Tohono O'odham Fair and Rodeo, 2007 Sells, Tohono O'odham Nation, Arizona
69th Annual Tohono O'odham Fair and Rodeo, 2007 Sells, Tohono O'odham Nation, Arizona
69th Annual Tohono O'odham Fair and Rodeo, 2007 Sells, Tohono O'odham Nation, Arizona
Western Idaho State Fair, 2007 Boise, Idaho
69th Annual Tohono O'odham Fair and Rodeo, 2007 Sells, Tohono O'odham Nation, Arizona
SantaLand, 2006 Chandler, Arizona
SantaLand, 2006 Chandler, Arizona
SantaLand, 2007 Chandler, Arizona
Western Idaho State Fair, 2007 Boise, Idaho
Western Idaho State Fair, 2007 Boise, Idaho
SantaLand, 2006 Chandler, Arizona
SantaLand, 2007 Chandler, Arizona
69th Annual Tohono O'odham Fair and Rodeo, 2007 Sells, Tohono O'odham Nation, Arizona
69th Annual Tohono O'odham Fair and Rodeo, 2007 Sells, Tohono O'odham Nation, Arizona
State Fair, 2008 Phoenix, Arizona
69th Annual Tohono O'odham Fair and Rodeo, 2007 Sells, Tohono O'odham Nation, Arizona
State Fair, 2008 Phoenix, Arizona
State Fair, 2008 Phoenix, Arizona
Western Idaho State Fair, 2007 Boise, Idaho
Western Idaho State Fair, 2007 Boise, Idaho
Western Idaho State Fair, 2007 Boise, Idaho
69th Annual Tohono O'odham Fair and Rodeo, 2007
Sells, Tohono O'odham Nation, Arizona
SantaLand, 2007 Chandler, Arizona
State Fair, 2008 Phoenix, Arizona
State Fair, 2008 Phoenix, Arizona
State Fair, 2008 Phoenix, Arizona