I made a first visit to this sanatorium in September 2021. I found two things that I really liked: a beautiful stairwell with beautiful blue glass tiles and this small room. I do not know what its function was. This building on the mountainside overlooked one of the beautiful lakes of the North of the country but this kind of loggia, yet very beautiful, overlooked the back. Anyway, it seems that his last function was to store chairs! During this first visit, there were twice as many, along the entire length of the room. Unfortunately, as with all the last places visited during this trip, a material damage prevented me from taking a good wide-angle photo. The wide angle was here a sine qua non condition to capture the essence of the room. Indeed, to be able to show this framing, I had to position myself in the door frame, with the tripod in the back room. I went back in November 2022. I was very apprehensive about this visit because I know that these places have their own lives. They can be barricaded, demolished, monitored overnight. So from one year to the next... I really wanted to redo this photo, so I hoped that it would always be perfectly abandoned. If you see this picture, it is because this second visit was a success! So there were half as many chairs... Go find out why! I told you that these places had their own lives... This sight amputated of a few chairs initially disappointed me, but in the end, I prefer it. It removes a symmetry that I did not necessarily like and lightens the photo.

I found this statue in the park of an abandoned thermal baths in Italy. It was along a path where there were several others. This one was the last, the clearest at the end of the path, the others being for the most part very covered by vegetation. So I naturally preferred it because it offers a more airy background and context. In addition, I took several shots while moving around the statue. This one was my favorite because I particularly like the tree that seems to emerge from it and which gives the whole thing a hybrid appearance. Moreover, I who love to break the rules, for once I respected one: that of thirds, a principle of image composition which consists of positioning the subject at the limit of the left or right third of the frame. It’s rare enough to be highlighted!