Invite to Museo Correr
In the splendid setting of the Correr Museum in Piazza San Marco in Venice, I presented, together with Professor Riccardo Caldura, Director of the Academy of Fine Arts and Dr. Anna Toscano, my new photographic book "One, no one and fifty thousand - inside Venetians’ houses”. A ten years journey around the narrow streets of Venice, to discover what is hidden beyond a door, where still Venetians live.
My editor with the proof prints
To make a book, you need to have something to say, technical skills must be at the service of a concept.
In my next photographic book the concept will be on the loss of identity, and for this reason I have chosen as a stage the houses of the Venetians, with the Venetians themselves portraied inside.
Which other city can boast a millenary identity, which still today can be seen by walking along the streets, or inside the houses? Of course, Rome for example has a much older history. But may we say that all that remains of the Roman Empire are open-air museums?
In Venice, however, this is not such the case. Being Venice an island, it was not destroyed to make room for cars. In Venice, people live inside houses that are five hundred, even seven hundred years old, and they are not museums.
My editor controls the quality of the prints with his technician
My book on this topic will be published soon, and I will give it more space on this blog.
Right now I am at the Biblos publisher and we are checking the latest details together with his collaborators.
Stay tuned!
The typography where I am printing my next book