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FIKACAM
What compels us to take photos on holiday? And why does this same compulsion disappear when we return home? I wanted to look at my own home with the wide-eyed focus I had when surrounded by new and foreign places, so I turned the camera over to the perpetual tourist.Fika is a cavoodle (a cavalier-cross-poodle), and the way he sees the world is totally different from the way we do. For starters, it’s without colour and from about knee height. But also it is with what appears to be a higher degree of spontaneity and fascination.When I was travelling for my honeymoon I made the mistake of reading Susan Sontag’s On Photography, where she says “Most tourists feel compelled to put the camera between themselves and whatever is remarkable that they encounter. Unsure of other responses, they take a picture. This gives shape to experience: stop, take a photograph, and move on.”While I agree with the statement, I couldn’t deny that I was here- in a brand new place, compelled to photograph it. Moreover, it was not merely the remarkable to which my camera drew me. The plain and everyday was fascinating, if only for the novelty that I was elsewhere. Fikacam is my attempt to bring this feeling back home. Take a knee, or pull up a chair if more comfortable, and enjoy the best of six months of following Fika, photographing whatever he found interesting.Scroll down for install images at Victoria Park Centre for the Arts, prints, and the FIKACAM interactive trail
