Born in Frankfurt in 1955, Bernhard Hartmann began his career at the age of 18 as a press photographer. Self-taught, he studied art and became a landscape photographer. He owes his success to his breathtaking representations of historical buildings and monuments. This melancholic image stems from his quest to immortalise deserted sites in the course of his travels. Near Lake Como in Italy, in April 2018, he captures the splendour of flowering wisteria plants in the region.