"Picture Spot" Series
2005

Disney World is the most visited vacation destination on the planet. Annually, 46 million tourists visit the Orlando area. In Sarina Khan Reddy's latest work, a series of photographs and video entitled "Picture Spot" (2005) she explores the perpetuation of the colonialist image and the construction of the exotic, in the Disney theme park, "Animal Kingdom". She asks the questions: What is authentic? What is the relationship between tourism and Imperialism? What are the unspoken subtexts when theme parks construct "exotic" scenes (spots) for tourists to "capture"? Does this perpetuate the spectacle of the other?

 

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