Stone and Water

Venice in the photographs taken on color film in the technique of multi-exposure and developed by cross-process (the negative film is developed as a slide) looks unusual, but is perfectly identified by the contours of its symbols — gondolas, canals, palaces. There are no specific details here, but in the blurred and rattling frames, the shining image of the ancient city emerges — rich, arrogant, cruel, ruined, and now being swallowed up by greedy water, its inhabitants, the shadows of its past, displacing the present from the frames, and vague images of its future. Analog techniques of shooting and film processing were used to obtain the image.