Venice. Opposed solitudes.

The project was born from repeated visits to the city of Venice, where I was meeting more and more individuals in solitude. The amazing beauty of the city is becoming the set for tourists’ images, and not without elements of sloppiness and mediocrity. They say Venice is the most photographed city in the world. It's easy to believe, but very often the results are trite, homogeneous pictures; especially nowadays, with narcissism replacing the desire for knowledge. I’d like to offer a different, thoughtful, perhaps suffered work. I invite the spectators to uncover the loneliness in a touristic city, perhaps the most visited. The few remaining Venetians feel like foreigners in their own city: "there are days when I don't see even a known face" (Young venetian man interviewed by “Die Zeit”). In the evening, when day tourists move away, the city remains deserted and lifeless, as the businesses and public places are dedicated to the crowds of the day. My images tell about the two juxtaposed solitudes: that of the Venetians and that of strangers. They tell how what Hans Magnus Enzensberger wrote in 1958 about tourism is realized: "the virtue of hospitality is destroyed by making use of it".