• A shot that can often happen to take during carnival in Venice, where situations just happen without any planning. This image seems pretty much being setup on purpose; instead I just catched the lucky combination of people wearing costumes … Continue reading
• As always, children are the most sincere and intense performers of the carnival. It’s enough for them the simple costume of a famous movie characters, as this little boy sitting for a pause in St. Mark’s square, to step … Continue reading
• A gondolier stands in front of Doge’s Palace waiting for customers to take onboard his black boat; next to him, a tourist gets the ten millionth souvenir snapshot with the famous building in the background as eternal testimony of … Continue reading
• Most of the times I’m in town, I can’t avoid going to Piazza San Marco; and the reason is that this place, which I photographed countless times, is always an inexhaustible source of amazing images. Here, in a gloomy … Continue reading
• A chilly weather arrived in Venice, but this doesn’t stop adults and children from going around for Christmas shopping. Well equipped, the young passenger doesn’t seem worry for a day out in the cold, at least judging by his … Continue reading
• Faces, expressions and gestures of the participants in this celebration, reflect an intimate and profound devotion, something that can be brought to surface by only a few genuinely popular events such as the one that takes place in the … Continue reading
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• Among the many celebrations held in Venice, the Feast of Our Lady of Health is one of the most deeply perceived by the population for its strong religious feeling and is by far the least “touristy” of all local … Continue reading
• In 1630, as a votive offering for the city’s deliverance from the pestilence, the government of the Serenissima Republic of Venice decided to build a church dedicated to Our Lady of Health. The project was entrusted to the architect … Continue reading
• ….there was a city where kids were playing around “calli and campielli”, running up and down bridges; squares were easily turned into soccer fields, with cackling children running after a ball amid greengrocer kiosks and busy passers-by. I forgot … Continue reading
• As always at this time of year, the flow of tourists begins (thanks god!) to shrink and Venice regains, at least for some time, a less chaotic and noisy appearance. Venetians regain possession of their city starting again to go … Continue reading
• It takes few steps to get away from the noisy crush of tourists in S. Marco and Rialto and rediscover the charming venetian atmosphere we all know very well, made of silence and sound of footsteps in the distance. … Continue reading