PANTELLERIA BY BASTIEN LATtANZIO
Bastien Lattanzio, Parisian in his thirties, is a photographer of the moment, of snapshots, whether for his work in Fashion, Lifestyle or Travel.
Images of people and landscapes, always in warm tones, that speak of summer and of the good life.
In the past few years, the photographer has regularly collaborated with AD Magazine, M le monde and Vacances. He also works with many Fashion brands such as Chanel, Rouje or Vestiaire Collective as well as several Design brands including Astier de Villatte and Caravane.
Bastien Lattanzio likes places where life is sweet. La dolce Vita of the Mediterranean region especially, where the walls are white and the houses sober in their forms. You have to think of Greece, Ibiza or even Morocco where he lived recently. "When you're there, you don't have to worry about anything. You get a clear mind, ”he says.
The result is spontaneous, and always solar images.
In 2016, Bastien Lattanzio discovered the island of Pantelleria in the film A Bigger Splash by Lucas Guadagnino, and the island, a volcanic grain of land lost equidistant from Sicily and the Tunisian coasts, appeared to him as a brilliant oasis. For these Dammusi with white roofs of course, where Arabic inspirations mingle with the broth of Italian culture, and for this cliff-side road by which we go around the island as we would go around Jupiter, with its black rocks plunging into the infinity of the sea. Very quickly, Bastien Lattanzio went there. And then he came back again. Every summer for several years.
“When I discovered Pantelleria, I felt like I had found what I had been looking for all my life. There is a form of perfect aesthetic homogeneity there that touches me. No publicity signs to spoil the view. The construction of the Dammusi, abides by particular architectural rules with their lava stone walls. When I am on the island, I experience permanent ecstasy, ”explains Bastien Lattanzio.
The geography of the island and the space constraint make it possible to reduce the range of possibilities and to be satisfied with the essentials. To capture and document what is near you, without getting lost by going too far. There, you drive an old Fiat 500 or a vintage English 4x4s, that you don't even lock up when you go shopping. The ten restaurants on the island limit decision making and the Kaya Kaya, the bar on the port is perfect for a Negroni after a boat trip.
The idea of making a book out of it then became obvious. It was a spontaneous desire, to document the beauty of the place, to freeze it somewhere, to remember it when we miss it. Contemplating with your feet in the water or driving an old Defender, taken on film, these are photos of color and nature.
On the cover of this 144-page book, we discover the orange of the bushes burnt by the summer sun, the green of the caper trees that grow like a devil on the island and then the intense blue of the sea, which is always near. The title painted on the cover is by Nicoletta who produces natural wine on the island, Tanca Nica, she uses this calligraphy which she hand paints on the bottles under the shade of her pergola in the vineyards.
Available in bookstores and specialist stores, as well as on the Bastien Lattanzio website (www.bastienlattanzio.com) from mid-April.
144 pages - 23cm x 30cm - 400 copy
39 Euros