SECRET VENICE LAGOON

The stone face that can only be seen through a mirror, a circular watertight and fireproof library, a Madonna in a green cloak, the museum-workshop where you feel as if you've stepped back in time, the remains of a monastery in a private garden, a telemetry tower resembling a coffee machine, the hull of a boat inside a church, the planetarium of a former Luna Park, a bailing machine from the late 19th century that is still in working order, Father Christmas between Burano and New York, a pontoon and a swing bridge, the second largest museum in the world dedicated to pigs, the place in the lagoon where a famous artist retired, a shark named Olivia, a small military ossuary inside a park, the charm of hunting and fishing casoni, a stone cross hidden in the undergrowth, old English cannons used as bollards, the incredible mechanism of a medieval clock...

Riccardo Roiter Rigoni has been a professional photographer and writer since 2001. His multilayered personality means he has multiple interests. He is the author of several photo books – Venezia Sensation (Granviale Editori, 2008), Venezia momenti senza tempo (Marcianum Press, 2012) and Il mare d’inverno esiste davvero (Duck Edizioni, 2016) – and a novel, Come la luna alle porte. dell’alba (Duck Edizioni, 2019).