Description
Few of the quarter million visitors who travel to Malta each year are prepared for the rich experience they are about to encounter. Whether approached from sea of by air, a first sight of the island invariably provokes the question: how can such a small place contain anything of depth and variety? Upon setting foot on the island, however, the visitor is immediately surrounded by a wealth of impressions and sensations – the people, the architecture, the cultural landscape – creating in the visitor the sensory awareness of time, place and the past, evoking a feeling of uniqueness and mystery.
Of the many books on Malta now available, none have focused photographically on the people – their ordinary lives and daily activities. These photographs are personal observations of the normal flow of events in Maltese life.
Gerald Formosa
1980
