Playing in the lake

A word about the work

Lac Léman, summer 2017

The photo has been taken at Lac Léman, Switzerland during the summer of 2017. It is the third photo of an interesting series of natural diving boards around the world.

It was a challenge to find another suitable diving board after the photos of beautiful spots on the Atlantic Ocean in St Malo, France, and Galway, Ireland. Eventually, I found a very nice diving board in the middle of Lac Léman, Switzerland. It was situated in a small-town close to Lausanne. Compared to the infinity of the Atlantic Ocean, this location included beautiful mountains in the background.

In the summer of 2017, I travelled for several days to Lac Léman to shoot photos at the lake. At that moment, the diving board was abandoned. After one hour, the first swimmers arrived and soon other swimmers followed. There was an interesting mix of people, from fathers with little children to cool teenagers showing off.

This particular photo tells various different little stories of people having fun on the diving board, and invites the viewer to experience the photo anew each time. Look for example to the small boys having fun on the lower diving board, or to the two young people in love in the middle of the photo. I like the photo because all these little stories create one big, new, interesting story.

Jean-Denis’s choice

With this third picture of the natural diving serie, Joost has changed its operating mode. He changes his point of view and privileges the multiplicity of stories. The result is no less formidable.