Audrey & Alexandre

The place

Provence

Lavender fields, stone villages on the hilltops and old country houses under the plane trees, from Avignon down to the sea.

July works here with a little planning.

The light

How the light falls there

This is the light Van Gogh came to Arles for: clear and hard at midday, warm on pale stone and ochre earth in the evening. After the mistral the sky is swept clean and the hills stand out sharp. At midsummer the sun sets around half past nine; the hour before it is the one for portraits.