Ile du Levant, Ile du Titan

photography by OLIVIER AMSELLEM
text by JEAN DA SILVA

Co-edited and published by the villa Noailles and Archibooks + Sautereau Éditeur, October 2014

 

Heliopolis (City of the Sun), the first community in the world devoted to public nudism, was built in 1930 on a tiny portion of LE LEVANT, a military island off the Côte d’Azur. It has remained unchanged since the ’70s, with no cars, only 10 hotels, 85 villas, a nature reserve, and one beach where clothing is actually prohibited. No further construction is allowed. Olivier Amsellem vacationed there a few times, shooting every facet of this hedonistic utopia.