Closed for Vacations
The institutional navigation on Garda lake is active from March to October. During the winter months the ferries sleeps in the shipyards. Also ticket booths, located in major docks on the shores of the lake, remains closed. These booths are small anonymous prefabricated buildings, located nearby the docks, and in summer are visited by thousands of tourists.
Then comes the winter. Most of the small towns on the lake are semi-deserts, ghost town. The wind is cold, it gets dark early and the waters appear more sinister.
Who works here in August, is now on vacation. The lake is now closed for vacations.
In cold weather those small abandoned booths work as a kind of catalyst of summer memories, a summer that is no longer there. These buildings appears now sad and alone, but if we choose to finally give them time and a little attention, we realize that they tell us things. They speak of their loneliness and let us imagine the heat of August, and the lakefront filled with tourists until late at night.
The photographs were token at the Navigarda ticket offices of: Bardolino, Desenzano del Garda, Gardone Riviera, Gargnano, Limone sul Garda, Malcesine, Peschiera del Garda, Riva del Garda, Sirmione, Torri del Benaco, Toscolano Maderno.
