As a child of the sixties and seventies, I am one of the children of a generation
who regularly spent their annual vacation with their parents
in Italy with their parents. This was also the case for me as a child.
Ten days always in the same hotel, on the same stretch of beach at the
same time of year. So every year we went to Bella Italia with petrol vouchers
and my brother in my luggage to Bella Italia.
As part of my photo project, I traveled from 2019 until last
the small seaside resort of Viserbella near Rimini from 2019 to April 2023,
to take my pictures there.
Memories and events emerged. I recognized places,
places from that time that had changed a lot or no longer existed.
no longer existed. My inner images and memories from back then
mingled with the here and now after a good fifty years.
Emotionally, I was once again the little boy from back then, who as an
looking at this place from today’s perspective as an adult. The series
presented by me are double pages from my book project
“My father’s green swimming trunks”.
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