Paradise Found

Paradise Found is a documentary project exploring the swinging community of Bournemouth that meet at the Paradise Health Spa. Paradise offers a safe, fun and relaxing place for Swingers to meet, and it is one of the few Swinging clubs left in the South. The project explores the day to day goings of the club and the people that visit and meet there. It shows the scene in an open and honest way, opposing some of the traditional misconceptions that shroud the scene whilst also confirming some of them. Society can often have an immature and narrow minded view on alternative sexualities and sexual lives, the idea of this project was to open up a very private scene to the viewer. To those whose views were shadowed by myth and media spins, the project hoped to present them with facts, in that they may come to a new informed conclusion about this alternative lifestyle. The photographic work also has an accompanying text piece of interviews conducted with both couples and singles that explores the questions that many have on the scene.