Afterimage Gallery, one of the oldest photography galleries in the world, has begun a show of the Venice work of Sarah Hadley. Ms. Hadley has had a special connection with Venice for most of her life. She spent her childhood living in a replica of a Venetian palace, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, where her father was the director. For eighteen years, she was surrounded by paintings of the likes of Rembrandt, Titan, Whistler and Sargent. In these years, her family made frequent trips to Venice, and she ended up living there in her 20s. These photographs were made over a four-year period from 2006-2009. They have a dreamy, surreal feel achieved using various lenses and Photoshop. She says, “I see a city clinging to a bygone era and splendor, and I see a Venetian way of life that is rapidly changing while its foundations are
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