Memory of water: the women reshaping Venice – in pictures

Marta Canino navigates her motorboat through the canals – where she offers navigation lessons to women. Photograph: Daniela Sala

Venice is a city of tradition and projection, a place feeding the imagination of millions of people arriving from elsewhere. The “impossible city”, suspended on water, often appears unchanged, fixed in time. Yet, like the water that carries it, the city is in constant, subtle transformation.

• Beatrice, 28, has been working as a gondolier for one year, pictured during a shift operating the traghetto public-ferry gondola that crosses the Grand Canal