Summer is not just a season: it’s an atmosphere, a special light, a certain way of being in the world. Some photographers manage to capture it in all its emotional power. In this selection, seven authors and their books guide us through different visions of summer: intimate, ironic, melancholic, or dazzling. A visual journey to flip through under the sun (or on days when we miss it).
Arturo Bamboo, Summer Diary
An intimate and sunny visual diary, where sun-drenched beaches, fleeting loves, and suspended moments blend into a nostalgic, Mediterranean aesthetic. Arturo Bamboo’s images tell of an eternal summer made of warm light, salty skin, and golden silences.
Joel Meyerowitz, Cape Light
In this classic of color photography, Meyerowitz captures the magical light of Cape Cod in its endless summer variations. His photographs are calm, painterly, and imbued with the lightness that only the slow pace of holidays can provide.
Luigi Ghirri, Kodachrome
Ghirri explores 1970s Italy with a poetic and melancholic gaze, filled with pastel colors and everyday geometries. In Kodachrome, summer becomes a pervasive feeling: silent, familiar, and full of reflections.
Martin Parr, The Last Resort
English summer in its most kitsch and pop version: Parr documents seaside life in New Brighton during the 1980s. Ironic, provocative, and full of vivid details, The Last Resort shows summer through the sharp eye of a sociologist.
Massimo Vitali, Natural Habitats
From Italian beaches to the most crowded European shores, Vitali’s images portray crowds, landscapes, and summer sociality from a detached, panoramic perspective. Each shot is a theatrical scene full of stories to observe.
Naomi Harris, The Haddon Hall
Set in a Miami motel inhabited by retirees and eccentric characters, this project reveals an off-season, intimate, and surreal summer. With affectionate and humorous eyes, Harris takes us into a microcosm full of life.
Viviane Sassen, Umbra
Summer according to Sassen is enigmatic, sensual, and highly graphic. In Umbra, shadows and intense colors play with bodies and nature, evoking a tropical aesthetic that blends dream, heat, and mystery.
