German Tourist Poster #4 (Prora)
My work deals primarily with the subject of Tourism concentrating on unsavoury aspects of the industry, often analyzing the extent to which macabre sites and shrines are manipulated by the industry.
German Tourist Poster #4 (Prora) is a painted pseudo advertisement addressing history from two perspectives, the British and the German. The image depicts a vast holiday camp built in the 1930s on the Baltic island of Rugen. Having been derelict for years, a section of it has recently been converted into a youth hostel. By turning it into a tourist attraction, it explores Germany's recent willingness to come to terms with it's Past. As the poster is written in English though (and aimed at a British audience), it highlights the still prevalent British obsession with the Second World War evident in the countless documentaries shown on British television channels.
German Tourist Poster #4 (Prora) is a painted pseudo advertisement addressing history from two perspectives, the British and the German. The image depicts a vast holiday camp built in the 1930s on the Baltic island of Rugen. Having been derelict for years, a section of it has recently been converted into a youth hostel. By turning it into a tourist attraction, it explores Germany's recent willingness to come to terms with it's Past. As the poster is written in English though (and aimed at a British audience), it highlights the still prevalent British obsession with the Second World War evident in the countless documentaries shown on British television channels.
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