— Venice, Italy

Venice Photography

Long-exposure fine art photography of Venice, Italy — gondolas at San Giorgio Maggiore, the Bridge of Sighs, and the Venetian lagoon rendered in silver. Selected works from the Venice in Blue and Venetian Lightscapesseries, recognised by the Exposure One Awards, the 1839 Awards, and 1x.com.

Available as limited edition archival pigment prints and face-mounted acrylic, with editorial and commercial image licensing on request.

Long-exposure black-and-white view across the Venetian lagoon toward San Giorgio Maggiore with moored gondolas in the foreground

Venice Gondolas in Soft Morning Light

Venice, Italy · 2025

Long exposure across the lagoon toward San Giorgio Maggiore — gondolas at rest, weather rendered as silver. From the “Venetian Lightscapes” / “The Silence of Stone” series.

Black-and-white long exposure from beneath the Ponte dell'Accademia toward Santa Maria della Salute

Beneath the Weight of Time

Venice, Italy · 2024

Long exposure from beneath the Accademia bridge — Santa Maria della Salute framed in timber and silver. From the “Venetian Lightscapes” / “The Silence of Stone” series.

Black-and-white view through a Venetian sotoportego of a striped-shirt gondolier passing beneath an arch beside a stepped bridge

Chiaroscuro Gondolier

Venice, Italy · 2025

A gondolier passes through a shaft of light beneath a Venetian sotoportego — stone, water, and time held in chiaroscuro.

View from inside the Bridge of Sighs in Venice through a stone-latticed window onto the sunlit lagoon, gondolas gliding past the Doge's Palace beyond

The Last Glimpse

Bridge of Sighs, Venice, Italy · 2024

From within the Bridge of Sighs — the last glimpse of Venice, framed in stone, that condemned prisoners were said to see before descending into the prison.

Black-and-white silhouette of a couple embracing in a sunlit doorway at San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, with a shaft of light stretching across the stone floor

Two Souls

San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy · 2025

Two souls held in a shaft of light at San Giorgio Maggiore — silhouette, stone, and the Venetian lagoon beyond.

— About the series

Venice, held in silver.

Sherry Keene's Venice work is built on long exposure — minutes of open shutter across the lagoon that pull weather, water, and wake into stillness. Gondolas at rest before San Giorgio Maggiore. The Ponte dell'Accademia framing Santa Maria della Salute. A single gondolier passing through a shaft of light beneath a sotoportego. The last glimpse from within the Bridge of Sighs.

These photographs are part of the Venetian Lightscapes and The Silence of Stone series, awarded Silver at the Exposure One Awards 2025 (Travel and Photographer of the Year), Bronze at the 1839 Awards 2025, and selected by 1x.com.

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