In this work, 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. By doing this, I am asking the viewer to contemplate the experience of tourism, and in a bigger sense to consider the fuzzy way we sometimes choose to remember our past.

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.

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