APRÈS L’ÉTÉ

book published by 37.2

LAUNCHED ON MARCH 2023 at YVON LAMBERt - paris

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next:

saturday feb 17th 2024

nuit de la photo - suisse

PAST:

FRIDAY October 27th

BOOk launch at PhotoBookCafe 4 Leonard Circus / Shoreditch EC2A 4DQ london - UK

from august 24th > october 1rst

exhibition at l’angle galerie 6 rue des Citronniers 64700 hendaye

TUESDAY July 7th 2023

Signing book at actes sud la crosière during the international photography festival in arles

from 6th > 12th november / during paris photo 2023

exhibition at galerie joseph 78 rue de turenne 75003 paris

160 pages / 135 images    Hardcover / 23 x 27 cm        French / English        45 euros

160 pages / 135 images Hardcover / 23 x 27 cm TEXT BY ANA CARDINALE French / English 45 euros


When you grow up facing the sea, the feeling of the ocean never goes away.

What impressed me the most when we settled on the Basque Coast was the light and different changes of atmosphere,

which proved to be even stronger off-season.

Unlike a trip, where we arrive at a destination with a blank gaze; walking the streets of a familiar environment becomes a challenge.

Confronting yourself daily with the same details and atmospheres, everything can seem almost too banal to be interesting.

It is precisely this challenge that interested me: the simplicity of things, the fascinating aesthetic of everyday life.

My exploration was exclusively by foot for a specific time, and I noticed that I always stayed within a 4km* radius of my home.

This ritual became a journey with imaginary boundaries, leaving free rein to intuitions and chance as I walked.

Unintentionally, I polarized my eternal sources of inspiration: architecture, cinema and literature; reminding me of George Perec

and what he called “l’infra-ordinaire”.

Discovering characters’ attitudes from the images I just took had become a daily pleasure when I came back from a day of shooting.

APRES L ÉTÉ (“After Summer”) is not a project about emptiness, but rather what is around it and within it.

It’s about observing a fragment of reality as I see and feel it, without the pretension of telling any other story than the one

you can make yourself by looking at the photographs.

What we really see and what we discover over time, simply by observing closer.

R.B.

*4km is the total distance from Copacabana Beach where I lived during my teens in Rio de Janeiro.


The emotion of Roberto Badin’s images leaves us with an indelible imprint.

Through the photographs of his new book, he transmits his poetic vision of a space delimited in a captivating style and composition.

After Inside Japan, we could expect him to choose another distant destination, but he decides to explore the familiarity around his home.

He revives with enthusiasm the mythology of everyday life, escaping the perception of ordinary life.

Their beauty comes from immobility and movement, from houses with closed windows to vast sea horizons.

as timeless markers placing us in front of our transient condition of being human”

ANA CARDINALE is a journalist and stylist specializing in interiors, art, design and architecture

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"What happens every day and comes back every day, the banal, the daily, the obvious, the common, the ordinary,

the infra-ordinary, the background noise, the usual, how to realize it, how to question it, how to describe it?”

Georges Perec


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