Fantasia

In Fantasia time is simultaneously suspended and sped up. Made during the magic hour the pictures reveal a twilight world where fairground machines frantically spin whilst people are frozen in time.

In my own memories of visits as a child and depictions in popular culture, the fairground can be a place of fun, excitement and wonder whilst at the same time, somehow unsettling. At twilight, a liminal moment in time, the threshold between day and night, the fairground comes to life. The pictures reveal an uncanny world that exists somewhere between childhood and adulthood.

C-type prints, 2006