Gone Fishing, 2017
Upon leaving Paris in 2017, Raphaël Neal settled for several weeks in a house next to the erupting crater of Stromboli, on the mythical island of the same name made famous by Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman. As he was working on his new script Nuée Ardente (Burning Cloud), a road-movie in Italy, Raphaël photographed, every day, the Aeolian Islands and in particular the remote and steep village of Ginostra, home to the smallest port in the world, where there are no cars or roads – only thirty inhabitants and three donkeys.
In a similar vein to his movie project, which tells the story of a young man who decides to disappear, these dark and foggy pictures evoke a bittersweet apocalyptic atmosphere.
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