Les Andelys II, 2018
Elger Esser: ‘I took my first night shot here in 1998 and returned in 2018 to take another shot from the same spot, in a different season and different light. Les Andelys is on the Seine. For young people, this is where their honeymoon took them, from the suburbs of Paris, if they didn’t have much money, for a weekend, not longer, and it is this view over the Seine that many couples probably remember. So it’s obviously just a beautiful river view, but it’s also part of a collective memory of many generations’