{"id":1946,"date":"2017-08-28T05:25:47","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T05:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/08\/28\/photographer-oleg-tolstoys-the-tourist-trap-series\/"},"modified":"2017-08-28T05:25:47","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T05:25:47","slug":"photographer-oleg-tolstoys-the-tourist-trap-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/08\/28\/photographer-oleg-tolstoys-the-tourist-trap-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographer Oleg Tolstoy&#8217;s &#8220;The Tourist Trap&#8221; Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Photographer Oleg Tolstoy&#8217;s &#8220;The Tourist Trap&#8221; Series<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Award-winning London-based photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.olegtolstoy.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Oleg Tolstoy<\/a> has us smiling from ear to ear with his latest series &#8220;The Tourist Trap&#8221; which hilariously documents\u00a0unbeknownst tourists\u00a0in Florence lost in their very own viewfinders. If you&#8217;re anything like me you&#8217;re just happy you weren&#8217;t in the beloved Italian city\u00a0when Oleg was shooting because I&#8217;ve definitely been guilty of this precise crime.\u00a0Over the course of two visits and ten days spent by Florence\u2019s historic Duomo, Oleg has created an eye-catching set of visual paradoxes: portraits of strangers in a strange land that are somehow intimate and completely unguarded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone was so busy taking photos, listening to audio guides and gawping upwards that they barely registered my presence, even when I was just feet away\u201d the photographer explains. \u201cIt was comical, but poignant. They\u2019ve travelled across the world to be here, but in the act of obsessively making thousands of bits of postcard-perfect content to show to friends back home, they\u2019re lost in their viewfinders and not really aware of their surroundings at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSome of their expressions reminded me of catholic depictions of ecstasy\u201d Oleg notes. \u201cLike past pilgrims, these visitors to the cathedral are lost to a higher power, but in this case, it\u2019s modern technology.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Tourist Trap by Oleg Tolstoy -8.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5161bc0ce4b0c98010aa9cf7\/597e6e03f9a61e963da8d818\/597e6e876f4ca302dd133857\/1501458065338\/The+Tourist+Trap+by+Oleg+Tolstoy+-8.jpg?format=2500w\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Tourist Trap by Oleg Tolstoy -13.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5161bc0ce4b0c98010aa9cf7\/597e6e03f9a61e963da8d818\/597e6e9d20099e0ef5a4c65b\/1501458088431\/The+Tourist+Trap+by+Oleg+Tolstoy+-13.jpg?format=2500w\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Tourist Trap by Oleg Tolstoy -1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5161bc0ce4b0c98010aa9cf7\/597e6e03f9a61e963da8d818\/597e6e73e6f2e130978817fc\/1501458043435\/The+Tourist+Trap+by+Oleg+Tolstoy+-1.jpg?format=2500w\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Tourist Trap by Oleg Tolstoy -2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5161bc0ce4b0c98010aa9cf7\/597e6e03f9a61e963da8d818\/597e6e74f5e23107dc1d0d16\/1501458043696\/The+Tourist+Trap+by+Oleg+Tolstoy+-2.jpg?format=2500w\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Tourist Trap by Oleg Tolstoy -14.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5161bc0ce4b0c98010aa9cf7\/597e6e03f9a61e963da8d818\/597e6e9ed482e9f4cc7e0c9b\/1501458086333\/The+Tourist+Trap+by+Oleg+Tolstoy+-14.jpg?format=2500w\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Tourist Trap by Oleg Tolstoy -12.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5161bc0ce4b0c98010aa9cf7\/597e6e03f9a61e963da8d818\/597e6e97a5790a1f46acda64\/1501458079114\/The+Tourist+Trap+by+Oleg+Tolstoy+-12.jpg?format=2500w\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Tourist Trap by Oleg Tolstoy -9.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5161bc0ce4b0c98010aa9cf7\/597e6e03f9a61e963da8d818\/597e6e8fe6f2e13097881931\/1501458071541\/The+Tourist+Trap+by+Oleg+Tolstoy+-9.jpg?format=2500w\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Tourist Trap by Oleg Tolstoy -3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5161bc0ce4b0c98010aa9cf7\/597e6e03f9a61e963da8d818\/597e6e79f5e23107dc1d0d3a\/1501458047694\/The+Tourist+Trap+by+Oleg+Tolstoy+-3.jpg?format=2500w\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"http:\/\/abduzeedo.com\/profile\/ibby\" class=\"username\">ibby<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Aug 28, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abduzeedo.com\/tags\/photography\">photography<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"field__item\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abduzeedo.com\/taxonomy\/term\/16373\">the tourist trap<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"field__item\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abduzeedo.com\/taxonomy\/term\/16374\">oleg tolstoy<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Source: Abduzeedo Photography<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographer Oleg Tolstoy&#8217;s &#8220;The Tourist Trap&#8221; 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