Monica Taglietti, born in Brescia in 1998, has been transforming reality into images since her elementary school days with an old analog Kodak. Her photographic journey, which began with the dynamism of night photography, has evolved over time toward the observation of urban unpredictability and high-altitude silences, building a visual language suspended between two seemingly opposing yet profoundly complementary worlds.

Monica collaborates as a photojournalist with the True Quality Association, documenting Brescia’s redevelopment through Street Art. Her gaze captures the city’s subcultures, the raw reality of the streets, walls that become canvases, and communities reclaiming urban spaces through art. She also works freelance for companies and events, bringing her documentary sensibility to commercial contexts without ever losing the authenticity of her gaze.

When she’s not immersed in the hustle and bustle of the city, Monica seeks refuge in the mountains. Climbing and hiking become moments of visual exploration for her, where the camera becomes a lens to capture not just glimpses but profound emotions. The vastness of nature, the silence of the high altitudes, the verticality of the rock faces are terrains of exploration both physical and aesthetic, where the body and gaze move in unison.

Monica Taglietti’s style is predominantly monochrome, split between digital and analog in a constant dialogue between technologies and approaches. Her photography seeks an essential balance between solids and voids, light and shadow, eliminating the superfluous to reach the essence of the subject. Whether documenting the bustling urban landscape or the quiet of the highlands, her work aims to create a universal language where every fragment tells a different story.

Monica’s work moves between two polarities: the city and the mountains, noise and silence, movement and contemplation. But it is precisely in this oscillation that her distinctive style emerges: the ability to find profound connections between seemingly distant worlds, to bring the same attentive and respectful gaze to both urban alleys and Alpine peaks. Photography thus becomes a tool for understanding reality and the emotions it engenders, a way to traverse and convey the experience of the contemporary world in all its nuances.

Selected Exhibitions and Awards

• /Grèm·bo/, with Marta Tessaroli, Sottoscala, Brescia, 2025