Church in Gourdes France, United States by Tom Rossiter

The wall opens, the sun sits directly overhead, and the altar comes to you.

Church in Gourdes France is a photograph printed on aluminum by Tom Rossiter, from the United States, about 2024. Large architectural photographs like this are printed on aluminum for homes and offices, giving a wall a window onto a place. The camera looks straight up the stone facade, which leans away into a blue sky with a white burst of sun at its peak. Old buildings tilt in from both upper corners. Through the tall doorway the nave runs back between rows of wooden chairs to a painted apse and a small window. The frame is black. Forty-nine and a half inches high.

Few churches are so accommodating from the sidewalk.