"Summer in Winter" in Landsberg

Created: 12/18/2021, 8:00 AM

From: Susanne Greiner

“Summer in Winter”: The portraits by Landsberg photographer Peter Wilson adorn the Postberg on the Saint-Laurent-du-Var-Promenade until December 29th.

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Landsberg - A slight chill can hardly be prevented when walking past: While mud shapes the partly bare, brown-green meadows all around and people hide their noses in pulled up scarfs, people sometimes point to Peter Wilson's photo portraits at the post office on the banks of the Lech a lot of skin: the Landsberger people photographer shows his 'summer portraits' in the middle of winter.

And thus brings back the warmth 

Because photographs can also be time machines, writes Wilson on an accompanying text that can be read next to the photos on one of the three stand areas.

They transported the viewer back to the time and place to which and where the photo was taken: up to “back to the first day of school, to a far-away country or even into summer”.

Even if it was a bit wetter than usual this year.

On some of the partition walls you can see people in swimming trunks or bikinis, photographed in the Inselbad Landsberg or on the terrace at home.

Others stand next to the obligatory grill or present themselves in airy summer clothes with an exalted parasol.

Wilson is known in Landsberg for his series of portraits “Landsberger People.

In his “Summer in Winter” portraits, he not only revives the summer feeling, but also shows the uniqueness of his photo models.

A possible story comes to mind for each of them.

But he doesn't just want to remember the summer, says Wilson.

But by demonstrating time and its transience to show what is special about every single day.

The photos can be seen until December 29th at the Postberg.