Tennis Courts III completes the subject of empty, abandoned courts, one after another like a long sequence shot through different seasons and different places.
The photographs don't show so much the inevitable passing of time but the forgetfulness that occurs in time's passing. The repetition of the subject transforms one thing into other things without really transforming the places themselves. I kept shooting, preferring the light at the end of the day, especially when there was a full moon and more light, and shooting until it got dark. The last photo in this trilogy of books is a daytime photo shot from a distance, a tennis court in the middle of beautiful palm trees, a sort of escape to paradise.
Giasco Bertoli (born 1965 in Cevio, Switzerland) is a Swiss Italian photographer who lives and works in Paris. He discovers photography at the age of twelve, when he receives his first camera, a Kodak Instamatic Pocket 200. He studied photography at the European Institute of Design in Milan and at the New School in New York. Since the 1990s, his work has focused on sport, cinema, youth, music and landscape. Bertoli is interested in both the dreamlike and ordinary dimensions of everyday life, exploring the landscapes of his native Switzerland, swimming pools, garages and other evidence of habitation and nature. He regularly contributes to various international publications, including the magazine Purple, in which many of his portraits are published.
