The Other Venice

By Brett Fitzpatrick

Venice is the City of Water, the City of Masks, the City of Bridges, the Floating City, the City of Canals and the City of Lights. But there is also another Venice. The Venice glimpsed at the end of small dark streets, Venice seen in winter, Venice seen from above. The Venice we aren't used to seeing. A Venice with some surprises in store.

This is the Venice you see in this beautiful photobook. These are pictures of the people and places of Venice, and the text gives an insight into the city. It tells you about the city off season, and away from the usual tourist haunts. The Other Venice.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brett Fitzpatrick
• Release date: Sep 25, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301058167

Brett Fitzpatrick

I am an author living and working in Venice. I love the flexibility that epublishing gives me to live where I want and get my books to people all over the world. I like to read sci-fi and fantasy, and allow my imagination to create the amazing visuals that the writer describes. I'm a child of the 70s and so Star Wars type space opera will always find a warm welcome in my reading stack. I grew up in the UK and this has given my sci-fi a very British taste. It is more Doctor Who than Battlestar Galactica. It also means that my political consciousness was forged in the battles of 80s British political life, like a few other, more famous, British sci-fi writers. For example, I try to make sure every book passes the Bechdel test. The greatest joy of writing for me is to be able to dive into a world of the imagination and come back up to the surface with something to show for it. I love feedback, even of the "This book sucks!" type. If somebody is interested enough to want to influence my work, I am interested enough to want to include their feedback.

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The Other Venice

Published by Brett Fitzpatrick & Barbara Stanzl

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Dedication

"But Venice, like Oxford, had kept the background for romance, and, to the true

romantic, background was everything, or almost everything."

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

For Brett

The Other Venice

Text by Brett Fitzpatrick

Photography by Barbara Stanzl

The Other Venice

Gondolas, tourists, Spritz and tiny cracks of uncertainty amidst timeless beauty.

I've been living in Venice for a year now. And I love it. Venice has so many faces and moods and I've really developed a relationship with the city. There is a lot of energy, people come from all over the world and they seem to leave a tiny part of