The Australian photographer is one of the artists who has best captured what beaches mean during the summer season.
The sea, the shore, the sun, the towels, the horizon, the waves. All the arts, such as Joaquín Sorolla in painting, have shown an obsession with the summer season in certain international artists. In the case of photography, the Australian based in Paris Akila Berjaoui is one of the greatest exponents.
The last days of Summer, his latest project.
His images of tanned bodies, sometimes through a pose and other times by chance (not so much chance for the expert eye), of crowded beaches and also of forgotten ones or of those readings with a breeze on the face have made many of those who cannot enjoy the summer on the coast dive into his snapshots.
Project techniques and locations
Shot on film, with which the photographer achieves that nostalgic effect, almost of eternal but timeless summer, her images are taken on various trips she has made throughout her life (Italy, France, Brazil), but also from her homeland (she was born in Tween Heads, in the north of the Oceanic country) or from Beirut, in Lebanon, where her father was from.
On the influences of photographer Akila Berjaoui
"At the time, the city was known as the Paris of the Middle East, because it was so cosmopolitan. And the coastline was stunning," she recently told iD, where she is compared, for her use of anonymous people in Edenic, Mediterranean locations, to Claude Nori and Slim Aarons.
We live a stone's throw from what you would call the Lebanese Riviera , so I definitely feel like the Mediterranean lifestyle shaped my aesthetic from a very young age.
Akila Berjaoui
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