I just love it when I stumble on something that in my mind’s eye is simply photographic, when I just know and it’s exciting. It’s still for me, the best feeling in photography, finding that subject, light, pose or composition.

A couple of years ago on holiday in Liguria, one evening we went out to eat gelato. From the parked car we cut through some residential buildings toward the town. It was there that I saw the entrance doorways to these apartment blocks. Their light and shape screamed at me to stop and for once I had not only my camera but also my tripod! I promptly sacrificed a couple of scoops of melon and raspberry ice cream with a ‘catch you later’ and unexpected location shoot.

All shot on expired Kodak Portra 160 NC with Hasselblad 500c/m