Summer Love

2023

Pinhole photograph on 5 x 4 in colour negative film, inkjet print on archival paper, 50.0 x 40.0 cm (19.7 × 15.7 in), edition of 3 + 1 AP.

While visiting an old friend in Munich, his young daughter gave me this empty shell from her treasure box, telling me that the snail had left its home never to return. I took this photograph on 27 February 2023, in the aftermath of the migrant boat shipwreck off Steccato di Cutro, Crotone, Italy.