The snow has taken over the mountains and the winter athletes are entering into the photography studio as they end their events for the day. My Olympic Mockumentary embodies high camp and portrays the exaggerated humor of the winter games through the characters I have created. Extremely stylized in personality and activewear, the athletes character traits are evident in each photographic frame. Shooting on an old marble backdrop, I am making my viewers believe they are looking at real photographs of the professional athletes, yet making them question its authenticity. Fake characteristics such as the mustache worn by my snowboarder athlete is obvious it is not real, yet it is questionable and forces my viewers to take another look.

Inspired by Susan Sontag in her essay Notes on Camp, she reflects on the ideas of high camp and how bad taste is good taste and camps ideas of failed seriousness. Creating this world, I am allowing my viewers to live inside my head for a period of time and through this mockumentary it is an indescribable era that is only my own.