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Coles Once, in Venice at Bayshore Shopping Centre in Ottawa, ON
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Once in Venice is not a travel guide or a simple memoir. It is a luminous, haunting meditation on time, memory, and the fragile art of seeing. In the stark winter of 2002, writer and photographer Max Nabati embarked on a singular pilgrimage to the Venice Carnival, armed not with a tourist's curiosity but with a salvager's urgency: three hundred rolls of film and a mission to "fix" a vanishing world onto silver halide. Accompanied by his friend Paul, a French scholar with a poet's eye, Nabati immerses himself in the city's swirling paradoxes-the glorious spectacle of resurrected traditions set against the quiet, relentless pulse of daily life. The narrative unfolds with the rhythm of a photographer's breath: the quiet concentration of the darkroom-like alleys, the frantic pressure of the perfect shot in San Marco's theatrical expanse, and the profound stillness found in the city's unseen corners. This is a journey into the heart of a living artifact, where masked revelry floats atop a deeper current of decay, craftsmanship, and enduring humanity. More than a record of a festival, this book is a philosophical exploration of the artist's duel with ephemerality. It captures the dual track of the creative mind: the technical focus on light and composition, and the silent, echoing thought, "This is perfect. This will never happen again." With prose as rich and layered as Venice itself, Nabati offers readers not just images of a place, but the very texture of a moment-the weight of light, the ghost in the lagoon, and the poignant beauty of all that is destined to be lost, yet courageously, brilliantly witnessed.
Once in Venice is not a travel guide or a simple memoir. It is a luminous, haunting meditation on time, memory, and the fragile art of seeing. In the stark winter of 2002, writer and photographer Max Nabati embarked on a singular pilgrimage to the Venice Carnival, armed not with a tourist's curiosity but with a salvager's urgency: three hundred rolls of film and a mission to "fix" a vanishing world onto silver halide. Accompanied by his friend Paul, a French scholar with a poet's eye, Nabati immerses himself in the city's swirling paradoxes-the glorious spectacle of resurrected traditions set against the quiet, relentless pulse of daily life. The narrative unfolds with the rhythm of a photographer's breath: the quiet concentration of the darkroom-like alleys, the frantic pressure of the perfect shot in San Marco's theatrical expanse, and the profound stillness found in the city's unseen corners. This is a journey into the heart of a living artifact, where masked revelry floats atop a deeper current of decay, craftsmanship, and enduring humanity. More than a record of a festival, this book is a philosophical exploration of the artist's duel with ephemerality. It captures the dual track of the creative mind: the technical focus on light and composition, and the silent, echoing thought, "This is perfect. This will never happen again." With prose as rich and layered as Venice itself, Nabati offers readers not just images of a place, but the very texture of a moment-the weight of light, the ghost in the lagoon, and the poignant beauty of all that is destined to be lost, yet courageously, brilliantly witnessed.
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