Artist's book.
“I started photographing empty tennis courts in southern Switzerland in 1999, on the border to Italy. The work came about by chance. Some time after I'd moved to Paris, I was back in Switzerland, walking in the woods near were I grew up and I came across an abandoned tennis court. I photographed that one, then courts around the neighbourhood where I grew up, and have continued to photogragraph deserted tennis courts ever since. In general I think about images from my adolescence and also think of the visual experiences I've had with film as an experience of real life.”
Giasco Bertoli, Spring 2009
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.
