Memory, time and return come together in a photographic tribute to Portofino, presented at the 15th edition of MIA Photo Fair.
In March, we present “What Remains of the Summers I Knew”, a photographic project by Nicolò Pudel, an Italian photographer based in South Africa, unveiled during the 15th edition of MIA Photo Fair in Milan.
Developed entirely in analog photography, both in black and white and colour, the series explores the relationship between place, memory and time. Rather than documenting landscapes, the images capture the emotional traces that locations accumulate over years of personal experience.
Portofino appears not as a destination, but as a lived place — shaped by memory, by absence, and by the perspective of those who return.
Photographed across several visits along the Ligurian coast, the project combines 35mm and medium format film, alternating colour and black-and-white images. The photographs do not follow a linear narrative; instead they reveal atmospheres — light resting on surfaces, figures appearing at the margins of the frame, and the sea as a quiet and constant presence.
The work reflects on what remains when the intensity of summer fades and when places begin to exist as much in memory as in geography.
Through this project we continue to celebrate our connection with Portofino — a place where landscape, family history and personal memory come together.
The series holds a personal significance for us. Nicolò Pudel is the cousin of Ruggero Raymo, one of our founders, and shares with him a deep relationship with these landscapes and with the house overlooking the Ligurian coast where some of the botanicals used in our gin are gathered.
Our participation in MIA Photo Fair therefore becomes a natural continuation of a story that connects family, territory and contemporary vision.
MIA Photo Fair
19–22 March 2026
Superstudio Più — Via Tortona 27, Milan
