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THIS LAST OF MEETING PLACES  | 2023 - 2024

This Last of Meeting Places explores the coastline, wild beaches and pine dunes of north-east Italy; a  fragile environment of shifting boundaries, at once quiet and disquieting. The series was inspired by T.S.Eliot’s poem, The Hollow Men, which takes place in a landscape set somewhere between existence and nothingness. A last meeting place for humanity where the hollow men of the title stand huddled together in limbo without defined form, gesture or substance. It famously ends with the world’s end, ‘not with a bang but a whimper’. 

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Eliot’s poem inspired Neville Shute’s book which itself became Stanley Kramer’s 1959 film, On The Beach, and it is interesting how many apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic films use the beach as a setting (The Last Wave, 1977, Mad Max, 1979, The Road, 2009 amongst others). The beach perhaps represents a kind of portal to our emergence and our disappearance. A liminal space between habitat and wasteland, transience and eternity. It is a journey’s beginning and a journey’s end.

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When it was released in Italy, Kramer’s film was titled L’ultima Spiaggia (The Last Beach), perhaps a better title than the original and a phrase that in Italian came to represent a situation of last hope. A final chance. 

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Interior Photographer in Italy - Architecture, Design, Real Estate, & Product Photography

Colin Dutton has over 10 years experience as a professional interior photographer, specialised in luxury, high-end photography for architecture and interior design studios, furniture producers, home and decor magazines, commercial buildings, shops, restaurants and hotels. He also works directly with companies, photographic their products or finished projects on-location. 

Colin's work is recognised for the quality of its lighting as well as the clean, quiet atmosphere he creates, offering depth and a sense of quality to the space he is photographing.

Based between Venice and Milan, Colin's clients are spread over Italy, in particular in the Veneto, Tuscany, Trentino and Lombardy regions. His interior photography has also taken him to Sicily, Puglia, Capri, Austria, Germany and Switzerland. He collaborates with a network of home stagers, art buyers and location scouts when required.  

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