Gueorgui Pinkhassov guides the onlooker along the windingly narrow streets of the evocative city of Venice. A place most people have a mental image of: the grand canal with its gondolas, St. Mark's Square, the movie stars trailed closely by the paparazzi; these pictures show us a totally different and unexpected place.

They captures an atmosphere, a game of mirrors, leaves reflected in puddles, the water condensing on glass windows, the sharp shades that fall onto the street below from glaring lamp posts above. Pinkhassov seems to be aimlessly walking through the narrow streets, absorbing the...