"Due to Covid-19 and the lockdown, Venice showed itself for the first, and probably the only time in his history, in all its amazing beauty.Free from the suffocating mass of tourists, free from traffic, free from pollution and noise, and free to show its perfect shapes, its lights and its shadows, its spaces uncontaminated by what is probably the real unbeatable and incurable virus: the defilement of Venice’s beauty by man’s lawlessness and lack of regard.

Even with this beauty, there is a prevailing feeling of drama, of loss.

A cruelty in the light, a threat in the shadows, a fear for the future of the city, and it is this feeling that I have tried to convey with my photographs.”

The new series “Our darkest hour – Its radiant time” will be edited in the month of may 5 copies by subyect, and showed at the next MIA Photo Fair, in Milan, from 9 to 13 September 2020. For further information and request please contact info@michelealassio.com