Where’s the lake?

The Riva Aquarama was designed for Lake Como at golden hour — for people who belong on a lake and know it. This series shoots it somewhere else entirely.

Inside a repair garage, on a trailer, surrounded by the kind of mess that money usually pays to make disappear. A cigar stubbed out on lacquered mahogany. A 1990 Dom Pérignon next to a pipe wrench. Suede loafers standing in a puddle that has no respect for suede.

Shot on Kodak Portra 800, the project explores the uneasy relationship between luxury objects and the unglamorous systems that keep them alive — the mechanics, the grease, the fluorescent lighting nobody asked for. The Riva is still magnificent. The setting disagrees.

Protagonist face blurred, every detail sharp. Because in this story, the things matter more than the people who own them.