THE SWEET JOY OF DOING NOTHING

A languorous August afternoon. That brilliant light and those impossible Mediterranean blues. The touch of sun on hot skin. And everywhere, the sounds of laughter and lighthearted conversation. Captured by photographer Lucy Laucht, these lyrical scenes of Naples, Ischia, the Amalfi Coast, Capri, Puglia, Sicily, and the Aeolian and Egadi Islands are an ode to the Italian way of summer and that distinctly Italian art of sweet idleness.

"Nobody captures the Italian sunlight the way Lucy does. There's a soulfulness and a depth in her work that really gets at the essence of this beautiful country."
— Yolanda Edwards, founder and editor of Yolo Journal