Off-Season (12 images)

Sicily – the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea and an autonomous region of Italy – is a place where local incomes are low. Besides agriculture and oil refinery being major parts of its economy tourism plays an important role as well.
While travelling along the roads of the island and visiting touristic hotspots it becomes obvious that many of these places are created for the purpose of attracting paying visitors. Peak season, however, clearly concentrates on the months...
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Sicily – the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea and an autonomous region of Italy – is a place where local incomes are low. Besides agriculture and oil refinery being major parts of its economy tourism plays an important role as well.
While travelling along the roads of the island and visiting touristic hotspots it becomes obvious that many of these places are created for the purpose of attracting paying visitors. Peak season, however, clearly concentrates on the months around midyear. More so this becomes apparent when one gets to the island at off-season – at a time when most of the target group is absent.
This series of photographs is a study on these places and visually concentrates on their intermediate state of temporary defunctionality. Traces of the past season are visible. Yet the settings for peak season’s spectacle aren’t fully erected neither are they completely dismantled. At once time ravages these places and leaves them lying idle with indifferent laxity.
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