For almost five years now, @hotelballu has been one of my favourite creative playgrounds.

What started as a photography assignment gradually evolved into something much broader : building a visual language, shaping an atmosphere, imagining stories, finding new angles, season after season.

One of the things I love most about working with a place over time is that the obvious photographs have long been taken. You have to keep looking. Keep noticing. Keep reinventing.

Different rooms. Different light. Different seasons. Different moods.

And yet, always the same place.

A luxury in today`s world is to be given enough time to develop a genuine visual relationship with a place. @hoteballu has given me exactly that.

Nearly five years later, I still haven`t run out of things to photograph.
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This week, Paris felt like it had skipped straight to the climax of summer.
Except summer hasn`t even started yet.
The city slowed down just enough. People lingered by the Seine, evenings stretched on forever. 
Between shoots, editing, writing and all the usual deadlines, there were also a few unexpected "flâneries", including one with my friend and muse @mariemersier who kindly turned the camera back on me for once. And a front-row seat to @jr spectacular transformation of the Pont Neuf.

I`ve always been a hot-weather girl. Give me sunshine, long evenings and the promise of summer and I`m instantly in a better mood.

Kind of a perfect week, really.

It means: the best is still to come 🌞
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#lifestylephotographer #summerlove

This is the time of the year when the call of Italy starts becoming impossible to ignore.
The slightly faded striped parasols that return every summer, exactly where I left them. The scent of sunscreen mixed with capuccino and granite. Tiny islands where time seems to loosen its grip a little.
And then there’s scopa, the Italian card game I discovered years ago when I first started spending time in Sicily. At first, I could never remember the rules. Now I no longer need to ask. Which somehow feels like being quietly admitted into the club of people who know how these long summer afternoons unfold. For us, the ritual is almost always the same : playing a few rounds while waiting for lunch or dinner to arrive at the restaurant, somewhere near the sea.

Sicily and the Aeolian islands have quietly become a refuge for me over the years. Partly because my partner is Sicilian. Partly because of friendships tied to this part of the world too — like @sofi_on_tour , my Australian-Sicilian friend I first met in Marrakech after she had somehow landed there from Bali. Life makes strange and beautiful connections sometimes.

Anyway. Summer is getting closer.
And apparently, so is my annual craving for Italy.

It means: craving for my Italian summer. 🇮🇹

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