IMMAGINI E MASCHERE DEL CARNEVALE DI VENEZIA
Rio de Janeiro, RJ BRASIL - February 1996
Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Rio de Janeiro - Casa de Cultura Laura Alvim

An exhibit about Venice in 1995. With the help of a friend, the creative mind of the Carnival of Venice, Bruno Tosi, I got to photograph all the best of those incredible days, and put on a show of 50 colorful pictures in the Laura Alvim Art Center in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, right in front of the wonderful beach. I made also an historical section showing the original masks and traditions, and it seems Cariocas appreciated it very much. Can't tell, though, since I was in Venice taking care of my other exhibit, and especially shooting and shooting more images.

But I learned a great lesson: there is nothing better than not to be present at the inauguration of your exhibit and thus offer the image of the "absent, busy artist". The magic, the gossiping, I didn't have to shake hands and tell everybody how "oh yeah, it was so much fun ..." when I well knew that for taking that particular picture I had to run through the crowd elbowing everybody (children included), slipping and almost falling a couple times, with 40 pounds of photographic equipment hanging from my sore neck, and cursing all along the way because my right shoe was chewing through the bleeding ankle...
Good photographs don't grow on trees. Right colleagues?