Here’s a wonderful book from Corinne Spector which tells beautifully, in words and pictures, of the duality of life in Venice. It tells of masks and costumes of festival goers and poetically of ordinary moments in the lives of Venetians.
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A very tall man with a black hat becomes lost in the shadows of anchors on the huge walls. He turns and comes to stand with a church behind him. It wasn’t clear whether he was confused or perhaps the church itself had gotten lost, because suddenly the church was just a shaft of light...
Like Alice, I spotted a huge cat nearby, not far from a tiny elderly woman. And I saw two old men with baskets, returning from somewhere... Their slow-paced walking invited me to become curious alongside them. “Where am I actually hurrying to?” I asked myself, so I slowed my pace, my camera tagging along.
Corinne Spector was born in 1961 and grew up in Jaffa, and Bat Yam, now living in Shoham, Israel. As the eldest of six sisters, she made up and told them stories. Now she uses her camera to tell stories, and people say they see whole stories in her photos.
She has been taking courses in photography for the past five years, including nature, documentary, cultures, and so on. She has been focusing on street photography in the last two years.
“Photography enables me to get a moment of feeling into one frame, to feel something and be excited by it. I am pleased with a photo when I find more layers of meaning each time I look. During photography there is a decisive moment in which there is a story, something unusual or a connection. Nothing is staged, and with all the movement, I insist on maintaining a strong aesthetic sense.
Photography allows us to feel like we are preserving this moment in time – for a bit longer. I feel that my best photo is the one I have not yet taken... “