# Streets of Venice

By [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com) · 2023-05-20

italy, photography, shot-in-iphone, streets-of-venice, travel, venice, venice-biennale

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This entire city is centered around controlling water. Omnipresent front-door flood dam:

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/25046a61c618f45dbeded2d382eceb9b.jpg)

Venice has great doorbell game. If it hasn’t already been done, I think someone should make a coffee table book of these:

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/bb39e2ccb50eb752b0846dbbb62ce82d.jpg)

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/30190da39f16b64de3076818c11a3fc2.jpg)

This city is also quite prolific when it comes to urban laundry:

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/8866f47fab13c0803005dd4ae173e8ef.jpg)

We found a number of these street ladders. Presumably laundry related:

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/7ddff857059c24898a9a89b7f01decc8.jpg)

Religion in the streets:

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/ed15f22ea404a94ab715fa38c6c41747.jpg)

Window garden:

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/4bc2583bc88ef2851c8f2422acaebbd0.jpg)

Balcony gardens. Your reminder that (1) small balconies can still be impactful and that (2) balconies with a relationship to the street are used differently:

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/f82ca9c2f170be207b378fb61947952c.jpg)

Colorful shoes and green curtains:

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/daf7564028f3f3bca52f3d26bb6cf2f9.jpg)

Grand Canal:

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/4911b55d3357b7f50fa825ae97840937.jpg)

The kind of street we should allow in North American cities:

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/5d0cb7d1340a526c5260ebae9dcd044b.jpg)

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*Originally published on [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/streets-of-venice)*