“Before I went to Corsica, I read W. G. Sebald’s posthumous fragmentary about this island. He wrote a book on the issue, but it remained unfinished at his untimely death. He therefore became my guide. I went to the places he writes about: the forest of Aitone and massif of Bavella, to a hotel on the red cliffs above the village of Piana, the nearby beach and the cemetery. I remembered my own dead. I looked for places so beautiful that if I was Corsican, I would be buried there. 

My father was an amateur photographer who gave me my first camera. When my mother was widowed at the age of 37, she enrolled in an art school and had four years of fulfilment. I became a photographer due to my father, but because of my mother I‘ve becomean artist. This series is a tribute not only to the Island of Beauty and to my favourite author, but also to my mother, Ulla Brita Brotherus, born Sommar (1944–1985).”  Elina Brotherus

Self-published
French, Dutch, German, Finland

17 x 24 cm
176 pages
2022