Giasco Bertoli "Tennis Courts"

"I started photographing empty tennis courts in southern Switzerland in 1999, on the border to Italy. The work came about by chance. Some time after I'd moved to Paris, I was back in Switzerland, walking in the woods near were I grew up and I came across an abandoned tennis court. I photographed that one, then courts around the neighbourhood where I grew up, and have continued to photogragraph deserted tennis courts ever since. In general I think about images from my adolescence and also think of the visual experiences I've had with film as an experience of real life."

Giasco Bertoli, Spring 2009
via Nieves

Designer/artist/builder Maggie Godwin kindly brought this perfect book all the way from London for me.