Maria Falconer & Paul Hill

Fantasy and illusion have gone hand in glove in photography since its inception in 1839.

When empty, these studio sets seem strange and eerie, even surreal. These photographs hint at their purpose, but the rendering of fine detail reveals something else, another reality.

The tension between the words spoken by photographers and models, and these sets only serves to reflect how important fantasies are to our lives, and how living in a parallel universe can be preferable to the one we live in…