Carnevale

• Photographer
  Robin Yong
• Agency / Studio
  Www.robinyongphotography.com
• Photo Date
  19th February 2023

A series of street side portraits of local Italians at the Venice Carnevale. During Carnevale, the local Italians prefer painted faces and historical costumes to being fully masked. (The full masked ones are usually participants from neighbouring countries that have come to join the festivities).

Robin Yong is a multi-award winning Travel Photographer. He enjoys traveling to exotic destinations to befriend and photograph the locals. He is best known for his work on the Omo Valley tribes in Ethiopia, the Venetian Masked models in Venice, the Bokator boxers of Cambodia and the Maikos of Kyoto. He calls these works his Travel Portraits, his Art of Travel Medicine. For most of his works, he does not use flash, reflectors or artificial lighting, depending solely on natural lighting alone. The photos are often dramatic, colourful and extremely beautiful.