7 Lambda prints from 5 x 4 in colour transparencies mounted on Diasec, 81.0 x 81.0 cm (31.5 x 31.5 in), edition of 1 + 1 AP. Box set of 7 prints, paper: 30.0 x 30.0 cm (11.8 x 11.8 in), image: 18.0 x 18.0 cm (7.0 x 7.0 in), with a German / English introduction by Judith Rüber and a photograph by Jan Kobel, edition of 100 + 10 AP. 7 NFTs 1080 x 1080 px + file of the corresponding images printable 81.0 x 81.0 cm, minted 2022, edition of 3.

Venice was once a city of many cities—one of ink and inquisitors, another of crystal and seafarers, of backwaters and lepers, brocade and winos, gilt and lions in fancy costume, Istrian stone and embroiderers, films and followers of Titian, and so on. But today, it seems to me, only two remain: the visible city, where you might spend a few days before it vanishes forever whence it came, and the ideal city, painstakingly assembled in the imagination—whether from images and stories or, for a few, from memories.

These photographs are of the latter, Venice itself being neither.