Bolognese by birth, Venetian and Swiss by adoption, Lucia Bargagli Petrucci approached photography when she was only 11 years old, when she received her first Laica as a gift.

The camera soon becomes a black and white filter between her and the world, which on the one hand separates her from reality and on the other allows her to be intensely part of it.

While studying archaeology in Parma, photographing objects and writings on the street is the main diversion to some family problems, so much so that she enrolled in a course in Florence that teaches her the "alchemical" techniques of photography development and finally landed at the IED in Milan, where she learned to use artificial light.

There she studies and approaches the techniques of the "classic" artists, such as the still life compositions of Irving Penn, the live portraits of Annie Leibovitz and the scenes of everyday life of Henry Bresson.

Meanwhile, with her husband and daughter Amalia, she travels and lives everywhere, moving 14 times around the world from the valleys of Polesine to the skyscrapers of New York assimilating suggestions and visions.

The stylistic turning point comes in 2012, when, following a flood in Veneto, her entire photographic archive is destroyed and she finds herself having to question herself and her way of approaching photography.

From a visual universe populated by the use of black and white strongly outlined and contrasted, almost 'full color', she now welcomes the intermediate shades, preferring real life to the construction of compositions in the studio. The smartphone thus becomes the most suitable tool for capturing the spontaneity of everyday life, precisely because it is a 'horizontal' medium that does not intimidate and speaks to everyone.