FRANK SCHASSE
Venice_Flying Fish

This picture consists of 2 photos, taken using the ICM technique, of the Grand Canal with its gondolas.
The bow fitting is striking and reminded me of flying fish.

Originally only as a counterweight to the gondolier, today also as an ornament and symbol of the city of Venice, the bow of the light vehicle carries a metal fitting (metal tail) weighing around 22 kg at the upper end, the ferro di prua, which ends at the top in a kind of horn in the shape of the fisherman's cap worn by the doges as headgear in their national costume. Six spikes protrude from underneath. According to a common interpretation today, these in turn symbolise the six sestieri (districts) of Venice: San Marco, Dorsoduro, San Polo, Cannaregio, Castello and Santa Croce. The spike pointing backwards is said to represent the Giudecca.

Author
"It is an illusion that photos are taken with a camera... they are taken with the eye, the heart and the head."
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Frank Schasse is an architect and has been involved in photography since his student days. Both disciplines stem from the same quest: the attempt to give form to space, light and perception in a way that goes beyond the purely visible.
For him, photography is far more than the capture of a moment. It is an act of seeing – and, at the same time, of realisation. It is only through conscious observation that the world begins to transform. What is seen detaches itself from its mere reality and becomes a new image in which memory, mood, emotion and imagination merge. This gives rise to a reality of its own, which allows us to glimpse not so much the object itself as its very essence.

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