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Place, non-place, place

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« What happened was that we were driving on the highway from Izola towards Koper when we saw a drummer on the side of the road. So I immediately drove to the side of the road and reversed my car and asked if I could take some pictures. »

In 2005 Yamandu Roos embarked on the project that became Europeans: one continent, forty countries, 65,000 kilometers. The book appeared a decade later, in 2015. This photograph was taken from the roof of his own car (« the eagle »).

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