| No roads, so no white vans. Food and drink, building materials, office supplies, everything is distributed about the city by barge with most of the loading and unloading still done by hand. Work that we take for granted elsewhere calls for unique solutions in Venice: Imagine erecting scaffolding on a building surrounded not by solid ground but by water. |
Every item has to be delivered by boat or barge down the narrow side canals Buy Print |
Erecting scaffolding over a canal poses an interesting problem Buy Print |
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Given the numbers of visitors and pigeons, Venice is a very clean city. These men help keep it so Buy Print |
Yes they are armed Buy Print |
Presumably a wheelbarrow would appear on that gang plank amidships Buy Print |
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Comuters board an early morning Vaporetto Buy Print |
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Self explanantory and not for the sentimental Buy Print |
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Setting up the stalls for the day in the fruit market Buy Print |
The fruit and veg arrive and the market Buy Print |
The Rialto Market awakes Buy Print |
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Setting out his wares Buy Print |
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The cheese shop opens for business. Rialto Market Buy Print |
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Walking to work the Venetian way Buy Print |
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Stacking the load Buy Print |
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In another hour or so thousands more elbows will polich the parapet of the Rialto Bridge Buy Print |
Early morning rush hour traffic. Rialto Buy Print |
The drive to work on the Grand Canal Buy Print |
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Keeping the Piazza clean is a 24 hour process Buy Print |
Window display at the art materials shop Buy Print |
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This was the only palette delivery I saw. Why were there not more? The crane folds flat to clear the bridges Buy Print |
Alfresco meeting Buy Print |
A gondolier grafting Buy Print |
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The pavement artist awaits his next subject Buy Print |
