TITLE: Where the Riverbank Weeps

From a series exploring an area of reclaimed land on the edge of the Venice Lagoon in the north of Italy. I photographed the four main rivers of the area: the Sile, Piave, Livenza and Tagliamento, as part of a group project for a book and exhibition entitled 'Viaggio in Bonifica' to mark the 100th anniversary of the land reclamation works.

It is in many ways a new, man-made landscape, with artificial banks, raised roads and deviated rivers. It is fragile, strangely melancholic and threatened now by the risk of rising sea levels that could see the whole area returning to marshland.

I made the images over the course of the winter, travelling slowly up and down the rivers by bicycle and shooting on an old Hasselblad film camera; a kind of 'Winterreise' that for certain had an effect on my relationship with the rivers and on the images I made in response to the landscape around me.

AUTHOR: Colin Dutton (Italy)

Born in London, after taking a degree in Documentary Photography at the University of Wales, Newport, I moved to Italy where I've been based since 2003. I work as a photographer for commercial and editorial clients around the world. Apart from my commercial work I shoot personal projects which have been exhibited in London, Berlin, Milan and Paris. I also present workshops on photographic practice and teach photography on the Masters program at BraveArt Academy in Vicenza. My personal work is either shot on medium format film or digital.