• Brexit from a distance

    Brexit doesn’t influence me directly, but being Danish living in Italy means my existence relies on freedom of movement. Brexit attacks that freedom.

  • Fifteen minutes in a Venetian park

    The photos below are taken in fifteen minutes, walking about 200m.

  • Bicycles in Berlin

    I’ve been bicycling all my life, and its one of the very few things I miss here in Venice. Berlin, on the other hand, is full of bicycles.

  • Berlin 25 years later

    Berlin 25 years later could just as well be another city.

  • Lio Piccolo 

    While I’ve kayaked a lot around much of the lagoon, I’ve never been to some of the northernmost parts. My friend Selina took me up there by car, looking for flamingos.

  • Drowning in silence

    A man was drowning besides me in the hospital pool, and I didn’t know what to do to save him.

  • Annegare in silenzio

    Io ho visto un uomo annegare a due metri da me in piscina, e non ho saputo salvargli.

  • Winter in Venice

    Winter light is different, even if the weather isn’t very wintery here in Venice now. These photos are from a tour on December 27th around the city.

  • Gilberto Penzo: La gondola

    “La gondola” by Gilberto Penzo is the definitive book on the Venetian gondola, but it has been out of print for years. A second edition has now been published.

  • Black and white photography

    Martina and I went and did another photography class with Marc de Tolenaere – this time on black and white photography. Much of the focus was technical: correct exposure and post production. We talked about Ansel Adams‘ zone system, and the need to make sure that important areas of the composition aren’t too dark so…

  • Venetian fairground

    Every Christmas there’s a fairground in Venice, in the Riva dei Sette Martiri, for small children.  

  • White egret

    White egret taking off (Certosa island, Venice)