Venezia FC is football on water. A Club shaped by a city unlike any other.

In Venice, water is not a backdrop – it is lifeblood. It is memory, movement, work, risk, rhythm, and survival. You don’t only learn how to walk here. You learn how to float, how to swim, how to dive. The tides shape the city, but it is the community that sustains it.

To introduce Venezia FC’s 25/26 Special Edition Fourth Jersey, Siamo nati sull’acqua, a photo series by Diogo Lopes, celebrates the profound relationship between the city and its waters – and the people who live them. The Shirt becomes a vessel: a surface that carries stories, identities, and conversations. Not only about football, but about belonging.

The series brings together voices from across Venice’s creative community – including design studio Zaven, Gallery Director Pia Sophie Ottes, artist Lorenzo Vitturi, Cristiana Collu Director of Fondazione Querini Stampalia, DJs 999999999 and music collective Metabolismo Lagunare, environmental activist Jane da Mosto, chef Silvia Rozas, Sibylle Righetti of Edipo Re, Francesco Vittorio Bassan of Katkoot Italia and others connected to the city’s creative landscape.

The lagoon emerges not as backdrop, “its sounds and colours have always been a source of inspiration” in “a relationship of fascination and identity” as said by Elena Callegari and Elia Favaro, part of Metabolismo Lagunare collective. And for 999999999, “the lagoon is magnetic – part of our imagination since the beginning.”

But the lagoon is also an invitation to slow down. As Cristiana Collu writes, it is “not sea and not yet land, an unstable threshold where forms hesitate and time slows down.” A living space that invites listening, mutual care, and shared growth – a reminder that fragility and impermanence can become a form of resistance.

“For me, the Venetian Lagoon is everything – or almost everything. It is the focus of my work, centred on the regeneration of the salt marshes. It represents my hopes not only for Venice, but for the fundamental and urgent reconciliation between us and nature.” said Jane da Mosto, founder of the NGO We Are Here Venice.

Through these voices, the lagoon reveals itself as both landscape and community: a space that shapes creative practices, everyday life, and a collective sense of belonging.