The question of experience can be approached nowadays only with an acknowledgement that it is no longer accessible to us. For just as modern man has been deprived of his biography, his experience has likewise been expropriated. Indeed, his incapacity to have and communicate experiences is perhaps one of the few self-certainties to which he can lay claim. This does not mean that today there are no more experiences, but they are enacted outside the individual. And it is interesting that the individual merely observes them, with relief. From this point of view, a visit to a museum or a place of touristic pilgrimage is particularly instructive. Standing face to face with one of the great wonders of the world (let us say the patio de los leones in the Alhambra), the overwhelming majority of people have no wish to experience it, preferring instead that the camera should. 

G. Agamben, Infancy and History. Versus, London 1993

SAFARI

I lived in Venice for more than 20 years. I still have my closest friends there. Venice is where I got married and where my eldest son was born. In short, I can say that I have lived there long enough to have understood what it means to suffer the siege of mass tourism.

'Safari' is a reflection of those cities that have made tourism their only resource. What future scenarios lie ahead for those cities that do not know how to capitalise on their treasures but only sell them off to the highest bidder? 

I bought twenty toy cameras from a stall selling tourist stuff. The same old kind of plastic toy camera that you can find wherever. I replaced the slide with the photos of the city with one made by a reverse engineering process with my pictures on it.

The 20 numbered limited edition 'Safari' toy cameras are sold-out.