Why would
you shoot the
same view
a thousand
times?
French photographer
Christian
Chaize
tells us why he’s been
snapping the same Portuguese
beach for almost a decade
“
I
did not choose
the beach, the
beach chose
me,” says
Christian
Chaize, who first discovered
this spot near the town of
Cercal do Alentejo, on
Portugal’s Alentejo coast, in
2004
when he went to stay at
his wife’s summer home. He
and his family have come back
every year since – and Chaize,
who’s been a photographer for
25
years, shoots the same view
overlooking the beach several
times each visit. He calls it
Praia Piquinia – a phonetic
version of its local name.
The Lyon-based
photographer’s collection
forms the basis for book
Time
and Tide: Pictures from Praia
Piquinia
,
which is out now.
“
I wanted to show the locals
what was right there in front of
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