La Serenissima, Queen of the Adriatic, Venice has been a magnet for tourists since the eighteenth century. Canaletto, Guardi, and Turner, to name but a few artists, have all left us memorable images of the city, and while I naturally would not presume to place my name among these luminaries, images from earlier times have been an inspiration for my work shown here.
Modern photography can often be too faithful in its recording characteristics and seems for that reason to lose a sense of poetry. Artworks and early photography were necessarily limited in its presentation of detail and color palette, and these characteristics have a distancing effect which lends a sense of timelessness to the subject.
Digital photography now allows photographers much simpler means than traditional film photography to control the tonal range, color and details of their photographs, and this is what I have attempted in these images shown here. My main inspirations have been the 19th century watercolors that would have been produced by many competent amateurs in their travels, and by late 19th century color postcards that used the photochrom process to colorize black-and-white photographs. I hope you enjoy them.
Santa Maria della Salute
