Corto Maltese Statue, Grandvaux, Switzerland

Corto Maltese, Hugo Pratt's restless sailor, stands tall and lean in his long coat and cap under a stormy sky above Lake Geneva at Grandvaux, photographed in 2015. Pratt found a house in this Swiss village through his publisher friend Rolf Kesselring, spent his last years here and is buried in its cemetery. The statue has watched over the lake since 2007, and the setting suits a hero always gazing toward the next horizon.