Masks intrigue all of us. This one from Venice, Italy. Every culture has masks and I have a small collection from various cultures around the world. This photograph continues my non documentary fantasy/fiction series. I am in the “playing” stages of both shooting and choosing. Oftentimes I start a project and then drop it or it may segue into something else. Only by photo sketching and working do long term concepts evolve in my case. I can’t be sitting around waiting for something to pop in my head. Ideas jump at me when I work. No matter what the work. When shooting pure documentary I am an interpreter of the reality before me, yet there are parameters of discourse. If shooting fiction as here, there are no boundaries. No rules. The story is in my head. All photography is exploration in its best forms. As a language it is the newest and least known although most spoken by the most people. Pictures are primitive. Yet in our modern high tech world still photographs dominate our daily life. I think this comes as a surprise to many. For sure new forms of photo expression evolve daily. If I watch TV news I must escape the horror that seems to bombard. The underbelly of mankind. Yet through art we can at least discover the snippets of imagination that allow us to continue. Masks hide and masks reveal. #venice #masks