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Venice is unique, a city for delighting us… to sink us into the deeper pleasures and fears, while getting lost in the haze that invades their mystique streets… streets of water or streets flooded … is a timeless, unreal city… except for the millions of tourists who daily ramble the narrow streets, fill the squares, bridges and canals! How perfect it would be if we could disregard those distractions… then we would preserve only the wonder of its architecture, its canals, its history… Unfortunately, our limited eyes can only see the constant anarchy of Venice… but by holding several minutes of life in a single frame, allows us to erase what is chaotic, leaving only the soul of the city.

“In our opposed forms of loneliness, self- and mutual-recognition, we touched each other often as we spoke; and on shore in explorations of the past, we strolled with our arms linked… In Venice, things not always as they first appear…”

About author:

José Carlos Costa was born in 12.08.1978 in Braga (Portugal). Being the youngest of a family of 11 brothers, “superfluous” expenses were obviously left behind and, therefore his first priority was to invest in academic training. Despite the long passion for photography, his first camera (a compact) was only acquired at age 20 with the scholarship savings. Despite its obvious limitations this served to irreversibly increase his addiction for photography. In 2009, after finishing his PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering, he acquired his first Canon DSLR that allowed him to broaden horizons. Currently the photography occupies almost all his free time, searching for developing his technical and above all his creative aspects. In constant quest for his own style, nature photography, mostly involving his favourite element, water, and long exposure techniques are the base of his work.

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