“Route du Soleil” by Photographer Cleo Goossens

Photographer Cleo Goossens has fond recollections of her annual household trip alongside France’s Route du Soleil—a nostalgic vacation spot for her mother and father, who spent their first vacation collectively there in 1981. The Route du Soleil turned the start line for her collection and subsequent photobook by the identical identify, finally branching out to incorporate different significant areas. Together with her digital camera, she highlights small moments from each day life that may in any other case be missed.

Ever for the reason that sudden passing of her father ten years in the past, images has served as a coping mechanism for Goossens. Collectively together with her accomplice Steven, she has traveled to many alternative international locations, at all times with a digital camera in hand. Whereas touring, she thinks about her father, who had by no means been on an airplane. The discharge of the e book marked a decade with out her father. “‘Route du Soleil’ is a celebration of the little moments in life,” she explains. “An exploration of the wonder that we will discover round us if we pay sufficient consideration. However most of all, ‘Route du Soleil’ is an ode to like.’”

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