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French photographer
Christian Chaize has been capturing the
different moods of this beach in the
Algarve since 2004
“
I wanted to show the
locals a different,
more abstract way
of looking at the
beach”
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them,” he says. “To offer them
a different, more abstract way
of looking at things.”
Inspired by Italian still-life
painter Giorgio Morandi and
Harvey Keitel’s character in the
film
Smoke
,
who has taken a
photograph outside his shop
every day for 14 years, Chaize
wanted to show how the view
changes almost imperceptibly.
“
The light is very special in
Portugal and it changes subtly,
as does the actual beach –
there can be 2-3m of sand
depending on the tides and the
weather. And, of course, the
sunbathers come and go.”
Even after the book’s
publication, he plans to keep
going to the beach, to shoot
the portrait-shape views with
his large-format camera – the
series is as much about the
people as the landscape to
Chaize. “It’s an emotional
place for me, a family place, so
I cannot imagine stopping now.
I have two small children and
they often ask: ‘Dad, Dad, can
we go and take photos of the
beach now?’”
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