Colour photo taken looking down a very narrow Venetian alleyway baking in the afternoon sun. The walls are of mottled terracotta coloured brick, and where the photographer is standing they are so close together that you could reach across them with a single armspan; the alley continues to narrow from this point until coming to an end in a closed dark green door, far enough away in the photo to be fuzzy and indistinct. The right hand wall is mainly plain brick and in soft shadow, but the left hand wall is a mishmash of white marble window frames, green shutters, drainpipes, patches of bright light and dark black shadows, and most noticeably and incongruously given how medieval the architecture feels, a small neon yellow sign warning of the presence of video surveillance cameras. The main focus of the image is a handwritten sign strung across the width of the alleyway, which in wonky black capital letters reads "no way" and underneath in Italian "strada chiusa", which means "cul de sac" and is obviously what they meant to say but mistranslated. The whole image feels utterly deserted, as if there were people there once but no longer.