If this doesn't look like your typical racetrack scene, then that's because it's not...
Out on a limb —
If this doesn't look like your typical racetrack scene, then that's because it's not...
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The racetrack is transformed into an eerie, retro timewarp, in these intriguing images from Canadian photographer Kourtney Roy.
You bet —
The racetrack is transformed into an eerie, retro timewarp, in these intriguing images from Canadian photographer Kourtney Roy.
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The photographer donned wigs and thrift store costumes, for the shoot at race courses across Paris. "I found that it added a certain ambiguity and uncanniness to the scene when I was partially hidden or when my face was unseen. It seems more ominous," said Roy.
Flower power —
The photographer donned wigs and thrift store costumes, for the shoot at race courses across Paris. "I found that it added a certain ambiguity and uncanniness to the scene when I was partially hidden or when my face was unseen. It seems more ominous," said Roy.
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The series -- called "Ils Pensent Déjà Que Je Suis Folle" or "They Already Think I'm Crazy" -- was named the winner of a competition exploring gambling, and exhibited at Le Bal photography center in the French capital.
Sinister scene? —
The series -- called "Ils Pensent Déjà Que Je Suis Folle" or "They Already Think I'm Crazy" -- was named the winner of a competition exploring gambling, and exhibited at Le Bal photography center in the French capital.
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"I do love kitsch, there is a lot of beauty to be found in the everyday, in the banal and overlooked," said Roy.
Mysterious muse —
"I do love kitsch, there is a lot of beauty to be found in the everyday, in the banal and overlooked," said Roy.
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"I was often looking for the liminal spaces at the tracks, the in-between places that, although were often seen and passed over, were never really questioned or 'looked' at," she added.
Look closer —
"I was often looking for the liminal spaces at the tracks, the in-between places that, although were often seen and passed over, were never really questioned or 'looked' at," she added.
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"The photos made me laugh, I thought they were really quirky, and they made me think of the race course as an empty shell," said Nick Attenborough, of Great British Racing.
Dark humor —
"The photos made me laugh, I thought they were really quirky, and they made me think of the race course as an empty shell," said Nick Attenborough, of Great British Racing.
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There were no racetracks where Roy grew up in "the wilds of northern Ontario." But once she did discover the grandstand, she was hooked: "There is really nothing like spending an afternoon eating fries and drinking beer, while watching the most magnificent creatures in the world run past you at dazzling speeds."
Just the ticket —
There were no racetracks where Roy grew up in "the wilds of northern Ontario." But once she did discover the grandstand, she was hooked: "There is really nothing like spending an afternoon eating fries and drinking beer, while watching the most magnificent creatures in the world run past you at dazzling speeds."
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