Over the past 20 years, photographer Jean-Michel Berts has worked on a number of very different themes. He began a "cities" project four years ago in Venice. He has chose black and white as an ideal medium for expressing his sensitivity in this area. His main sources of inspiration are Norman Parkinson and Karl Hugo Schmölz, to name but two.

These pictures involve a hightly sophisticated technique and more than twelve months of preparation. Jean-Michel was intent on revealing all the subtleties, all the richness of the destinations he had chosen for this prohect. The shots were taken in the wartly morning or late at night, to mmet specific lighting requirements. The artist has intetnionally focused on man-made constructions, deviod of human presencem in order to allow them to "live", to exist, in their own right.
If you ever come across a tall, blue-eyes man, photographing the town in the early hours of the morning, who know? It may just be him...

"I wonder if the sensation of light precedes in my photos... I am searching for the sensations that are in harmony with myself. The absence of time is the common denominator of all my photos."