Alan Gignoux’s photograph is part of the Human Accumulations project. In his project Gignoux investigates the navigable water of fascination with one-of-a-kind natural spectacles. Having once veered into the downward vortex of publicness, their exploitation and ambient commercialization is imminent. Drawing on the example of the Niagara Falls he documents the transformation of the surrounding untouched landscape into privatized pleasure parks, thereby simultaneously documenting the decline of an American symbol that once stood for the greatness and loftiness of pristine American nature.