Venecia no nos ve (Venice does not see us) is an artistic project that invites viewers to look beyond the fleeting presence of tourists and perceive the city through the slow pulse of its millennia. In a world increasingly focused on immediacy and instant documentation, the project seeks to capture Venice’s perpetual, silent essence, revealing a city that exists and sustains itself far beyond our brief stay as visitors.  The project is rooted in a radical change in perception, considering Venice as an entity that does not see us, but rather one that exists within its own eternal patience and ancestral strength. It is an invitation to an act of visual and poetic humility that relegates the viewer from their starring role to offer them a distant and profound vision, which blurs the hyper-presence of humans in the city space. All of this is achieved through pinhole photography, a simple historical method that uses cameras made from dark boxes with a tiny hole to capture long exposures.

David Hornback (Los Ángeles, 1962) graduated in Photojournalism from the University of Kansas (1985). His work focuses on photojournalism and artistic photography.  He currently lives in Bilbao, combining his work as a freelance photographer with teaching at the Blackkamera school in Bilbao (from 2018 to the present). Throughout his career, he has always taken a humanistic and conceptual approach, capturing historical events and personal narratives through images that explore memory, identity and urban experience.