What is the future, after all, but a structure of hopes and expectations? Its residence is in the mind; it has no reality.

Of course, you might reply that the past is likewise a fiction. The past is history, and what is history but a story made of air that we tell ourselves?

J.M. Coetzee in Elisabeth Costello

Was ist denn die Zukunft anderes, als ein Gebilde aus Hoffnungen und Erwartungen? Sie wohnt im Geist; in der Realität gibt es sie nicht.

Natürlich können Sie entgegegnen, dass die Vergangenheit ebenso Fiktion ist. Die Vergangenheit ist Historie, und was ist Historie anderes als eine aus der Luft gegriffene Geschichte, die wir uns erzählen?

Reto Gadola is a Swiss photographer.

His images are moulded by an architecturally informed gaze on the environment. He lives on the Zurich gold coast in Switzerland.He was socialized in the intellectual milieu of the Département d’Architecture at EPFL, Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne. Since 2018, Reto Gadola is focusing on photography, transcribing his background as an architect, researcher, teacher and writer into this form of expression. Influenced by the American New Topographics movement and its German counterparts, he is exploring the terrain in continuous exchange with contemporary photographers, artists and aficionados.