La Dolce Vita No. 19 Limited edition archival print 19" H x 14" W “La Dolce Vita No. 19” is a golden, end-of-day photograph of a beach club winding down — folded navy umbrellas and stacked wooden chairs tangled together in the foreground, the warm amber light of sunset bleeding through the scene and silhouetting a lone closed umbrella against a churning, glittering sea beyond. The image has a beautifully melancholy quality, the day's pleasures folded up and put away, the beach returning to itself as the light fades. Sandoval shoots into the sun, letting the flare and warmth flood the frame with a softness that feels like memory rather than documentation — a photograph not of a place but of a feeling, the particular bittersweet tenderness of a beautiful day coming gently to its end. Sandoval takes large format color pictures of landscapes and found objects. Each body of work is created while on immersive trips to specific pockets of the world. Read More
La Dolce Vita No. 10 Limited edition archival print 36" H x 26" W “La Dolce Vita No. 10” is the most minimal and perhaps most quietly profound image in the series — a single blush and lavender cloud drifting alone in an open expanse of cornflower blue Italian sky, the horizon below dissolving into a soft, warm haze. Nothing else. No landmark, no figure, no context beyond the sky itself. It is a photograph that only someone who has learned to truly stop and look would think to make — the kind of beauty that passes overhead every day, mostly unseen, and that Sandoval has spent her life training herself to catch. Spare, luminous, and unexpectedly moving, it is a reminder that wonder is always available, if you are willing to look up. Sandoval takes large format color pictures of landscapes and found objects. Each body of work is created while on immersive trips to specific pockets of the world. Read More
La Dolce Vita No. 24 Limited edition archival print, framed 12.5" H x 14.5" W “La Dolce Vita No. 24” is a close, direct photograph of the rear end of a vintage Italian car — its white paint worn and dented with decades of narrow coastal roads, a bold black license plate reading "SA 33 7820" centered between jewel-toned tail lights of amber, orange, and red, a rusted chrome bumper below. Sandoval frames it straight-on and without apology, letting the object's age and character speak entirely for itself. There is real beauty here in the imperfection — the scuffs, the patina, the twin exhaust pipes — the kind of accumulated history that only time and daily use can produce. It is a photograph that finds dignity and grace in something worn, a reminder that beauty does not require perfection, only attention. Sandoval takes large format color pictures of landscapes and found objects. Each body of work is created while on immersive trips to specific pockets of the world. Read More
La Dolce Vita No. 23 Limited edition archival print, framed 21.5" H x 16.5" W “La Dolce Vita No. 23” is a sweeping vertical panorama of the Amalfi Coast looking north toward Positano, the terraced cliffside tumbling from jagged limestone peaks through dense Mediterranean greenery down to a vibrant teal sea scattered with small boats. In the foreground, lush vegetation and a glimpse of orange umbrellas on a cliffside terrace anchor the viewer in an immediate, sensory present, while the village of Positano climbs the far hillside in layers of warm color, the whole coastline receding into a soft, hazy horizon. Sandoval captures the full, vertiginous grandeur of this place with an openness and clarity that feels like gratitude made visible — a photograph taken by someone who knows, deeply, what it means to find the world beautiful again. Sandoval takes large format color pictures of landscapes and found objects. Each body of work is created while on immersive trips to specific pockets of the world. Read More
La Dolce Vita No. 16 Limited edition archival print, framed 18.5" H x 22.5" W “La Dolce Vita No. 16” is a strikingly minimal overhead photograph — two empty teal beach chairs sit side by side on a vast expanse of grey pebbled sand, a single closed orange umbrella standing between them like a quiet sentinel, the only warmth of color in an otherwise muted, almost monochromatic scene. The chairs face outward, unoccupied, their emptiness carrying a gentle poignancy — waiting, or perhaps just resting between one moment and the next. Sandoval centers the composition with perfect simplicity, letting the surrounding sand breathe and expand in every direction. It is a photograph about stillness and anticipation, the particular beauty of a space held open — two chairs, one umbrella, and all the possibility of who might come to sit there. Read More
La Dolce Vita No. 14 Limited edition archival print, framed 24" H x 34.5" W “La Dolce Vita No. 14” is a wide, atmospheric overhead photograph of a Cinque Terre beach at dusk — the orange and teal striped umbrellas clustered in the center of the frame, small figures moving unhurriedly among them, while two dramatic dark sea stacks rise from the grey-green water just beyond the shoreline, their jagged silhouettes commanding the horizon. The overcast evening light gives the scene a soft, faded quality, the warmth of the umbrellas the only vivid color in an otherwise muted palette of sand, sea, and sky. Sandoval's tilt-shift softness lends the whole scene a tender, miniature quality — a world held gently in the frame, beautiful and transient, the kind of evening that ends too soon and stays with you long after. Sandoval takes large format color pictures of landscapes and found objects. Each body of work is created while on immersive trips to specific pockets of the world. Read More
La Dolce Vita No. 15 Limited edition archival print, framed 23.5" H x 18.5" W “La Dolce Vita No. 15” is a close, unhurried photograph of a row of vintage wooden beach chairs lined up on a grey pebbled Italian shore, their teal and white striped canvas seats worn with the patina of many summers well spent. Sandoval moves in close and shoots at chair level, the receding line of wooden frames and faded fabric creating a rhythm that draws the eye gently up the frame. The warm honey tones of the weathered wood against the cool, muted green of the canvas and the dark sand beneath give the image a quiet, tactile richness. It is a photograph about the beauty of things that have been used and loved over time — ordinary objects that carry, in Sandoval's hands, a kind of quiet grace. Sandoval takes large format color pictures of landscapes and found objects. Each body of work is created while on immersive trips to specific pockets of the world. Read More
La Dolce Vita No. 17 Limited edition archival print, framed 16.5" H x 15" W “La Dolce Vita No. 17” is a warm, street-level photograph of a vintage Fiat 500 parked on an Italian roadside, its cream hood draped with a blue and white striped cloth — part makeshift car cover, part accidental poetry — a rocky Mediterranean hillside rising into a pale sky behind it. Two more cars recede down the line, each similarly blanketed, giving the scene an unhurried, lived-in quality that is entirely and unmistakably Italian. Sandoval shoots close and low, honoring the little car's character with the same attentiveness she brings to flowers, coastlines and clouds — finding in this small, imperfect, beautifully ordinary moment exactly the kind of wonder she has spent her life learning to see. Sandoval takes large format color pictures of landscapes and found objects. Each body of work is created while on immersive trips to specific pockets of the world. Read More
La Dolce Vita No. 18 Limited edition archival print, framed 16.5" H x 15" W “La Dolce Vita No. 18” is a breathtaking vertical photograph of Positano clinging to its dramatic Amalfi cliffside — the pastel-colored buildings of cream, peach, and rose clustered at the base of massive limestone rock faces that rise steeply into a brooding, cloud-draped sky. Sandoval's tilt-shift rendering gives the village a dreamlike, suspended quality, as if it exists slightly outside of ordinary reality — a place so improbably beautiful that the camera itself can barely believe it. The scale of the mountain above dwarfs the town below with quiet authority, a reminder of how small and how tenacious human life can be in the face of the natural world. It is a photograph that holds both awe and tenderness in a single frame, exactly the kind of wonder Sandoval has made it her life's work to seek out and share. Sandoval takes large format color pictures of landscapes and found objects. Each body of work is created while on immersive trips to specific pockets of the world. Read More
La Dolce Vita No. 21 Limited edition archival print, framed 54.5" H x 38" W “La Dolce Vita No. 21” is a joyful, perfectly timed photograph of a woman mid-dive from the stern of a boat into the luminous turquoise waters of the Mediterranean — her body a clean, graceful arc against a wide, pale sky, red swimsuit and windblown hair the only vivid detail in an otherwise open, airy composition. Sandoval captures the split second of pure commitment — the moment just before the water, when the body is entirely given over to the leap — and in doing so makes an image that is as much about courage and joy as it is about beauty. It is a photograph that feels like a deep, happy breath, the particular exhilaration of being fully, unguardedly alive on a good day in a beautiful place. Sandoval takes large format color pictures of landscapes and found objects. Each body of work is created while on immersive trips to specific pockets of the world. Read More
La Dolce Vita No. 22 Limited edition archival print, framed 36.5" H x 31.5" W “La Dolce Vita No. 22” is a quietly composed photograph shot from a weathered wooden dock, the planks cutting diagonally across the lower half of the frame while a small white Italian tender bobs at the upper edge, its orange life ring a small, cheerful accent against the boat's clean hull. Between them, the water — impossibly clear and layered in shifting tones of aquamarine, teal, and deep jade — becomes the true subject of the image, the rocky seabed visible far below through what seems like liquid glass. Sandoval finds in this simple convergence of dock, boat, and water something genuinely beautiful — the kind of moment that asks you to stop moving, look down, and marvel at the transparency of the world beneath your feet. Sandoval takes large format color pictures of landscapes and found objects. Each body of work is created while on immersive trips to specific pockets of the world. Read More
La Dolce Vita No. 13 Limited edition archival print, framed 11" H x 14.5" W “La Dolce Vita No. 13” is a warm, overhead photograph of three young men standing in easy conversation on a sun-baked Italian beach, their long shadows stretching across the grey sand below them, the circular shadows of nearby umbrellas dotting the background like a graphic pattern. Shot from above with Sandoval's characteristic tilt-shift softness, the scene has the quality of a stolen glance — unposed, unaware, entirely alive. The pop of pink from one figure's swim shorts against the muted tones of the beach gives the image a quiet jolt of color and joy. It is a photograph about youth, ease, and the particular beauty of people simply being together in a good place on a good day — the kind of moment Sandoval has made it her life's work to notice and preserve. Sandoval takes large format color pictures of landscapes and found objects. Each body of work is created while on immersive trips to specific pockets of the world. Read More