Anne Zahalka

I was inspired by a catalogue I came across of the postcard photography work of John Hinde studios, who produced postcards in the 1950s and 1960s in the UK. What is striking about these postcards is that they manipulated the colours, exposures and scenes to create ‘dazzling’ hyper-real images. He was the first to do this. I wanted ‘Leisureland’ to capture the hyper-real nature of these scenes and found that the photographs produced this quality without manipulation. I’ve tried to be faithful to the environments and not tamper with them.¹