The Sideshow is the unique new series from The International Collaboration Project duo Deb Young of New Zealand and Francisco Diaz of the United States. Diaz and Young designed their new series to usher the viewer into a fictitious seaside carnival.
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Folktales by Francisco Diaz & Deb Young
Oct 30, 2017
In this series, our exploration of myths, fables, fairytales, nursery rhymes and idioms opens the discussion on how these mythical qualities can be interpreted today.
For most of us growing up, playgrounds were more than a place for fun and games- they also provided a fast and hard lesson in how social structure works; they taught us how to be patient while we waited for our turn on the swing, while boys would chase and torment the new girl
Each portrait in this photographic series—“Portraits”— is a cinematic narrative photomontage, a fictional representation meant to seem like snapshots of "reality."
The “Ascension” works are what I’ve termed a cinematic narrative photomontage series that references the moment of enlightenment or that sense of rising to "full comprehension of a situation.”
The photographs I create are what I call cinematic narrative photomontages, fictions meant to seem like snapshots of "reality." The implication is that our reality is created through the limitations of our perceptions.