Instead of cats, dogs now dominate as pets, 4,000 are registered in Venice, 2012
Brother Nicola Riccadona was a very popular clergyman in the Frari Church, 2013
Paolo Juris, art dealer, in Adriano Berengo's gallery in San Marco during the 2013 floods
Michele Zennaro has been working as a gondolier for years, 2011
Flag and office of the Communist Party PRC next to a shrine to Jesus in the Castello district, 2006
Office of the Italian Communist Party PRC in the working-class district of Castello 2006
Ilio Cofabelli, former lieutenant of the "Associane dei Carabineiri" in his office in the former Benedictine monastery, 2014
Rubber boots are a must at Acqua Alta, 2013
Aurora Spicuzzi, waste collector at the public waste disposal company "Veritas" collects waste in Cannaregio, 2011
Two patient transports: growing old in Venice is perhaps even more difficult than elsewhere because of the stairs and canals, 2012
Roberto Tramontin, gondola builder of the "Squero Tramontin", in conversation with a customer, 2014
Lorenzo della Toffola, gondola builder of the "Squero San Travaso" with his son, 2011
Pietro Meneghini checks the precision of a new rudder blade, 2011
Nicolò Zeno in Palazzo Zeno ai Frari, 2013
The annual carnival is a mass spectacle and attracts crowds of photographers from all over the world, San Marco, 2013
Carnival enthusiasts like these Americans like to meet up in fantasy costumes at the "Caffè Florian", 2013
Alessandra de Respinis runs the wine bar "Enoteca al Cantino da Schiavi" with her husband, 2013
Italo Perissinottom Pensioner and "allotment gardener" has one of 40 plots in the vegetable garden of the Angelo Raffaele church, 2013
Fabio Bastianello, shipyard manager, this floating dock from Dante's time is also still used for maintenance work, 2013
As in this kiosk, business at acqua alta usually continues "normally", 2013
Masked ball in the tradition of the "Commedia dell Arte" in the "Piano nobile" of Palazzo Zeno ai Frari, 2013
Venetian couple at the masked ball in Palazzo Zeno ai Frari, 2013
The women's crew of this very large "barca di rappresentanza" on the Grand Canal salute with their oars held high, 2013
Silvio Testa, Chairman of the "No Grandi Navi" association, 2012
Graziella Vianello, lace maker from the island of Pelestrina with a christening shoe for a baby, 2013
On the occasion of the 2012 Architecture Biennale, a "banchetto" will be celebrated on the Campiello Correra for local residents and artists
Giovanni Caniato, archivist in the gigantic "Archivo di Stato" in the former Franciscan monastery dei Frari, 2012
Silvano Signoretto, is a sought-after glassblower on the island of Murano, 2013
Marco Foriori, musician and saxophonist from the band "Ska-J", 2013
"Vegetable box", direct sale at fixed landing points to regular customers of a vegetable farmer from San Erasmo, 2012
Dominico Gorin, fisherman on his "casoni" on stilts in Pellestrina, 2013
Three fireboats are always on standby at the fire station near the Grand Canal, 2013
At the start of each shift, all the functions of a fireboat are carefully checked, 2013
Luana Castelli, author of the book, with other members of the women's rowing club on the Guidecca, 2013
Moving in Venice is usually a one-way street out onto the mainland, rents have exploded, 2006
Grape harvest in the "Laguna nel bicchiere", the "lagoon in a glass" on the cemetery island of San Michele, 2012
Grape harvest in the "Laguna nel bicchiere", the "lagoon in a glass" on the cemetery island of San Michele, 2012
Francesco Briggi and Annamaria Zappella in their costume shop "Atelier Pietro Longhi", 2012
Sister Nazarena in the convent of the "Suore di Francesco di Sales", 2011
On November 21, the Venetians in Santa Maria della Salute remember the redemption from the plague epidemic, 2011
Siro Polazzetto, mosaic master in the Basilica di San Marco, 2013
Daniele Crosara took over a small pastry store in Cannaregio 20 years ago, in 2011
Emma Vidal, then 98-year-old lace embroiderer on Burano, 2013
The objects by glass designers Marina and Susanna Sent have received numerous international awards, 2012
The "Al Mercà" bar on Campo Cesare Battisti, barely 10 square meters in size, is famous for its "cicchetti" with codfish mush, 2006
The island of Pellestrina offers tranquil country life away from the hustle and bustle of the old town, 2013
Dinner on the "bragozzo" laid out in front of the Sant'Andrea fortress by Christina della Toffola, 2013
Luisa Conventi still cultivates the ancient art of Venetian pearls in her jewelry manufactory, 2012

The last Venetians 2013

La Serenissima, the city of rulers, explorers, commercial travelers, painters and novelists, fascinates us to this day. But beauty can be a curse. While the number of visitors to Venice is constantly increasing, the number of inhabitants is falling dramatically. Photographer KaJo has set off with Venetian Luana Castelli on an expedition to the last Venetians. Together with the author, KaJo succeeds in taking his camera behind the facades of museum-like Venice and delving deep into the everyday lives and concerns of the Venetians: into hidden art workshops or vegetable gardens concealed behind high walls, into sacristies, fire stations, gondola shipyards or the palaces of the Nobili. The illustrated book was published by terra magica in 2014.