The big picture: diving into memories

With the help of a Portuguese swimming pool, French photographer Karine Laval recalls the summers of her youthBetween 2002 and 2005 the Paris-born and US-based photographer Karine Laval made a series of photographs of public swimming pools and lidos in Europe. The series began with some pictures she took at a pool in Barcelona. Using a Rolleiflex camera she shot from below to capture the modernist jut of diving boards against the clear blue sky.Laval was drawn to her “poolscapes”, sh