Dreaming of mermaids
Johannes Reinhart
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Do mermaids exist?
Thousands of children come to the Perth Fringe World Festival’s mermaid tank to see real mermaids every year. And not just children; it seems there is a force that finds me in front of the tank year after year.
Maybe it’s the action and escape from the ordinary that attracts my street photographer’s eye. But I think underneath is the beauty of a child dreaming that mermaids really do exist.
It represents an easily lost innocence that I have tried to hold onto for as long as I can. This photo series depicts my own childlike perspective of the magic of mermaids.
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Photographer Johannes Reinhart was born in Germany in 1974 and has lived in Perth, Western Australia, since 1999.
His photography reflects his inner world and explores a myriad of themes such as shadow and light, alienation, life, death, loneliness and subcultures.
Johannes has won the Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize, Australian Documentary Photographer of the Year and was a Lensculture Street Photography finalist. His work has been widely exhibited around the world.
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