Acqua
alta
San Marco Waterfront, Venice — Autumn 2022
A city half water.The Concept
Venice at the moment the lagoon reclaims the piazza.
The gondolas moored, poles standing in risen water, San Giorgio Maggiore blurred through a yellow-grey sky. There is no catastrophe here — only the slow seasonal return of water to a city that was always half water.
Acqua alta is not an emergency for Venice; it is a rhythm the city has learned to inhabit. This series follows that rhythm across a single autumn — the walkways raised, the shopkeepers unhurried, the tourists photographing what residents have stopped noticing. Water is not the subject. Acceptance is.
San Marco, Risen
Raised walkways cross the piazza like a temporary bridge between two versions of the same city.
The Pole
Marker 04 / BriccolaThe briccole mark a channel that only becomes visible when the water disagrees with the map.
Moored, Waiting
REF_884 / SAN MARCO BASIN
San Giorgio, Blurred
The island church dissolves into a yellow-grey sky, the horizon barely a suggestion.
Mirror Piazza
The flood turns the piazza into a mirror. The city photographs itself, twice, without asking.
Doubled Facade
REF_886 // REFLECTION STUDY
The Gauge
A century of water levels, marked in stone.
Passerella
The temporary bridge, and the choreography of everyone crossing it.
Acquire
This Series
Archival pigment prints, ed. 5 + 2 A/P
More From The Archive
Five series, one obsession with structure.
Between Stone & Sky, Concrete Horizons, Green on Brutalist, Acqua Alta and Grand Canal, Venice — each one an argument for the same idea. Explore the complete body of work.