Andrea Monti

Photos, not gear

  • Home
  • Daily photo
  • Colour
  • B&W
  • Landscape
  • Cities
  • People
  • Sport
  • FAQ
  • About
  • Conctact
Menu
  • Home
  • Daily photo
  • Colour
  • B&W
  • Landscape
  • Cities
  • People
  • Sport
  • FAQ
  • About
  • Conctact

No Widgets found in the Sidebar Alt!

  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Docks,  Garbage,  Winter

    Toxic Waste in Open Air

    August 31, 2021 /

    Read More
    Andrea Monti

    You May Also Like

    The Observer

    November 30, 2013

    The Wild Bunch

    October 1, 2013

    Walking Table in via Cornaggia

    March 22, 2014
  • B&W,  Daily photo,  Garbage,  Past&Relics,  Spring

    Too Big To Be Dumped

    January 10, 2015 /

    This frame came to life walking past an alley where time seems to have hit pause. The bins stand in perfect alignment, regimented like bureaucratic soldiers, while behind them, the decaying wall tells a different story—chaotic, layered, unresolved. I shot this with a 35mm prime, letting the midday sun carve stark shadows that add to the irony of this supposed order. The exposure demanded precision. Too much light and I’d have lost the texture on the old plaster; too little and the bins would sink into murk. I leaned into the contrast, embracing the Leica’s natural tonal harshness in black and white. No dramatic angles, no “decisive moment” flourish—just frontal,…

    Read More
    Andrea Monti

    You May Also Like

    Chasing Rainbows on the Open Road

    October 13, 2021

    Meaningless

    November 9, 2013

    The Answer is On the Wall

    August 28, 2020
  • Autumn,  Cities,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Garbage,  Oslo

    Vive La France, The Oslo’s Way

    October 7, 2014 /

    Occasionally, photography rewards us with moments where irony, design, and national symbolism collide in a way that demands to be captured. Vive La France, The Oslo’s Way is one such moment. Here, three public toilets stand in perfect alignment, painted in the tricolour of the French flag—blue, white, and red—each proudly labelled with one of the national motto’s words: liberté, égalité, fraternité. From a compositional standpoint, the image works because of its symmetry and spacing. The photographer has placed the trio dead centre in the frame, allowing the architectural rhythm of the background—trees and modernist façades—to act as a neutral backdrop. The careful alignment ensures that each structure has breathing…

    Read More
    Andrea Monti

    You May Also Like

    Nightlife in Bruxelles

    June 27, 2014

    A Lonely Table

    March 8, 2015

    Next, please!

    October 31, 2013
  • Autumn,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Garbage,  Gates&Fences,  Past&Relics,  Social Control

    Caged?

    June 6, 2014 /

    Read More
    Andrea Monti

    You May Also Like

    Last Wing Down

    February 26, 2015

    Daniele Silvestri – Teatri 2022 – Live@Teatro Massimo, Pescara

    December 16, 2022

    Last Check Before The Show

    July 21, 2014
  • Artists,  B&W,  Daily photo,  Garbage,  Past&Relics

    Cupido’s Fall

    June 2, 2014 /

    There was a time when Cupido ruled the world. Not the cherubic archer of myth, but the man on the torn poster — a champion accordionist, his name blazing in dotted capitals, promising music and spectacle. Now, the paper curls at the edges, bleached and scarred by weather, the glory half-erased by time and graffiti. The god of love meets the fate of every earthly name: reduced to a fading print on a damp wall, fighting a losing battle against rust, mould, and the next layer of urban scribble. The photograph works because it understands the poetry of decay. The black-and-white treatment is an apt choice — stripping the scene…

    Read More
    Andrea Monti

    You May Also Like

    A Special Dress for a Special Party

    July 6, 2016

    A Lamppost

    November 26, 2014

    Open Window

    February 4, 2015
  • Bruxelles,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Garbage,  Spring

    Two Beers, One Cigarette

    April 23, 2014 /

    Not staged. Swear to God!

    Read More
    Andrea Monti

    You May Also Like

    Reluctant

    November 11, 2014

    Does It Worth It?

    May 22, 2017

    The Taste Master

    March 2, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Garbage,  Past&Relics,  Winter

    The Arson

    February 21, 2014 /

    The wind had carried the scent long before I arrived—burnt resin, iron oxide, the telltale acridity of ash cooling under morning sun. What was once structure and story was now a cinder pile, framed awkwardly by two still-standing beams like broken arms. I didn’t need to ask what happened. I just raised the camera. This photograph leans into disorder. The eye stumbles across charred planks, twisted metal, and a scorched panel half-folded in retreat. It’s not elegant, and I didn’t want it to be. The strength of the frame lies in its refusal to sanitise. Destruction is inherently chaotic; presenting it neatly would be a betrayal of what it is.…

    Read More
    Andrea Monti

    You May Also Like

    Lady Gaga Art Rave

    October 5, 2014

    Addicted to (Nintendo) Switch

    July 6, 2017

    Earbuds

    December 22, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Garbage,  Urban Landscape

    What Lasts of a Saturday Night Party

    January 24, 2014 /

    Another week-end is gone. Ordinary life gets kicking-in back. A cigarette butt, a crumpled flyer announcing a Saturday night out, and the cold geometry of rusted iron bars were all that remained. The contrast between the fleeting promise of fun and the permanence of decay was unavoidable. From a compositional standpoint, the shot relies heavily on framing. The bars of the grate, corroded and heavy with age, create a literal barrier between viewer and subject. They cut across the image in thick lines, forcing the eye downward into the scene. The detritus beneath—the soaked paper, the stub, the fragments of broken glass—becomes both imprisoned and revealed. Depth is enhanced by…

    Read More
    Andrea Monti

    You May Also Like

    Silent Reader

    July 17, 2016

    Glancing Books

    November 12, 2015

    Ray-Ban in Milan

    October 5, 2015
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Garbage,  Milan,  Winter

    Lost Cigarettes at Piazza Affari

    January 22, 2014 /

    The Milan Stock-Exchange is just closed, another stressful day is gone, so are the cigarettes. The Milan Stock Exchange has just closed. Another day of trading — of numbers, speculation, tension, and relief — is over. The square begins to exhale. The crowds thin, footsteps fade, and the traces of human presence remain in small, almost invisible ways. Here, in a shallow puddle on the cobblestones of Piazza Affari, the day’s residue is quietly recorded: cigarette butts, scraps, and the inverted grandeur of a neoclassical façade. I was drawn to the way the water held both the building’s form and the detritus of the day in a single frame. The reflection, sharp…

    Read More
    Andrea Monti

    You May Also Like

    The Worst Moment to Fix a Shoe’s Problem

    April 14, 2013

    The Spectators

    August 19, 2017

    A Panorama

    December 30, 2014
  • B&W,  Beach&Shores,  Daily photo,  Garbage,  People

    An urgent phone call?

    December 15, 2013 /

    Using a tele (200 mm)  allowed me to take the picture but the long focal didn’t separate the planes as a 50 mm would. Truth is that – in these condition – I would hardly have been close enough to obtain the visual effect I was looking for, but the alternative was not to take the shot at all.

    Read More
    Andrea Monti

    You May Also Like

    A cigarette

    September 28, 2015

    Under the Bridge

    November 6, 2013

    The Bored Bassman

    March 16, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Garbage,  Past&Relics,  Winter

    When the Rubbish Basket is full…

    December 13, 2013 /

    I made this photograph with the lens barely above the surface. The irony hit me only later: a crumpled, rusting bin—designed to contain waste—floating free, stripped of purpose, drifting like a rejected artefact in a river that had no interest in borders or rules. This wasn’t a chase-the-light moment. It was more of a document-what’s-happening moment. But even in documentary photography, composition matters. The crumpled bin sits dead-centre, emerging from the water like a reluctant symbol. The surrounding wash of grey-brown is indistinct by design—an oppressive field of repetition, without texture or detail, forcing the viewer back to that sodden, disfigured centre. Technically, I shot this with a long lens…

    Read More
    Andrea Monti

    You May Also Like

    Labcoats In A Moment Of Rest

    December 28, 2015

    Modern Times

    January 6, 2013

    Why You Should Only Shoot in Your Backyard (or ‘The Art of Belonging’)

    December 19, 2024
  • Bottles&Cups,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Garbage,  Urban Landscape

    The Straycat

    December 3, 2013 /

    Alterness becomes second nature, for those who live on the streets.

    Read More
    Andrea Monti

    You May Also Like

    The Skeptical Listener

    May 26, 2014

    The Silent Dialog

    August 31, 2013

    When the Rubbish Basket is full…

    December 13, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Docks,  Garbage,  Urban Landscape

    Wrecked Ship

    November 23, 2013 /

    There’s a heaviness to this photograph, not just in the physical mass of the vessel but in the sense of time etched into its surface. The frame is filled almost entirely by the side of the wreck, the wood weathered to grey and streaked with rust-red, algae-green, and salt-white. The colours are muted but carry a richness born of decay — pigments laid down not by brush but by years of exposure, water, and neglect. From a compositional standpoint, the choice to exclude the horizon and most of the surrounding context forces the viewer to confront the ship as an object, almost abstract in its texture. The eye moves along…

    Read More
    Andrea Monti

    You May Also Like

    A Sailors’ Warehouse

    September 9, 2014

    Foto-Grafo featured on Yanidel.net

    March 20, 2013

    A Lost Towel

    July 3, 2013
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Garbage,  Paris

    Forgotten

    October 15, 2013 /

    If you don’t want to bring fresh flowers, at least remove the old ones…

    Read More
    Andrea Monti

    You May Also Like

    Technological Memento

    June 26, 2021

    Amex

    May 25, 2015

    Who Needs A Wedding Photographer Anymore?

    May 29, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Garbage,  Streets&Squares,  Summer

    Garbage Collection

    August 26, 2013 /

    Read More
    Andrea Monti

    You May Also Like

    Another attempt at DLSR film scanning

    January 21, 2023

    Hard Spam

    April 1, 2013

    So long and thank you for the fish

    February 6, 2014
  • Colour,  Daily photo,  Garbage

    What lasts after a party…

    April 25, 2013 /

    Shot the morning after a wet December night, this scene is an unfiltered inventory of what remains once the bodies disperse. Three bottles—two upright, one half-tucked behind an iron gate—stand in for the absent crowd. There’s no music left, no voices, no movement. Just rust, grime, and the fragile persistence of glass. I framed the shot to keep the human presence implied but never visible. The steps lead nowhere, the iron gate is firmly shut, and the graffiti—hastily sprayed in orange—reads only “KR”, ambiguous and unresolved. That felt important. The story here is incomplete by design. It invites conjecture, not clarity. Technically, this is a study in texture. The marble…

    Read More
    Andrea Monti

    You May Also Like

    A Street Dancer In Sakae

    August 9, 2019

    Marianna D’ama – Live

    December 2, 2018

    Waiting for the match…

    December 28, 2012
  • Beach&Shores,  Colour,  Daily photo,  Garbage

    A lighter

    February 14, 2013 /

    …left for somebody to come, or hidden by someone who just left?

    Read More
    Andrea Monti

    You May Also Like

    5 frames with a Canon R6 Mk II and its RF 50/1,2 L USM

    September 28, 2024

    A Rusted Window

    September 11, 2014

    A Dangerous Alley

    May 25, 2013

Projects

  • Daily photo (1,392)
    • B&W (276)
    • Colour (1,102)
  • Daily Video (16)
  • Portfolio (2)
  • Projects (1,306)
    • Airport (15)
    • Bottles&Cups (12)
    • Cars&Bikes (42)
    • Chairs&Seats (19)
    • Cities (455)
      • Barcelona (16)
      • Boston (11)
      • Bruxelles (66)
      • Hamburg (3)
      • Helsinki (2)
      • Kyoto (2)
      • London (27)
      • Milan (50)
      • Nagasaki (2)
      • Nagoya (8)
      • New York (9)
      • Nikko (1)
      • Osaka (3)
      • Oslo (17)
      • Padua (1)
      • Paris (31)
      • Rome (147)
      • Stockholm (11)
      • Tokyo (28)
      • Tsukuba (2)
      • Venice (22)
      • Yokohama (1)
    • Court (23)
    • Landscape (99)
      • Beach&Shores (78)
    • Lines (19)
    • Marketing (5)
    • Moon (7)
    • Observer Bias (14)
    • Odds (21)
    • OutOfFocus (13)
    • Parks (6)
    • Past&Relics (57)
    • People (624)
      • Actors (15)
      • Artists (85)
      • Fighters (29)
      • Portraits (42)
    • Seasons (920)
      • Autumn (143)
      • Spring (183)
      • Summer (260)
      • Winter (348)
    • Shops (166)
      • Barber&HairStylist (1)
      • Bookstores (10)
      • Brand Stores (1)
      • Fashion Shops (16)
      • Garages&Labs (11)
      • Groceries (3)
      • Jewelry (3)
      • Patisserie (11)
      • Restaurants&Bar (92)
      • Street Markets (15)
      • Tobacconists (2)
    • Social Control (51)
    • Travels (19)
    • Urban Landscape (293)
      • Boulevards (12)
      • Bridges (7)
      • Buildings (23)
      • Docks (74)
      • Doors&Windows (26)
      • Downtown (29)
      • Exhibitions (11)
      • Fountains (6)
      • Garbage (17)
      • Gates&Fences (12)
      • Parks (21)
      • Streets&Squares (66)
      • Works (2)
    • Visual (67)
    • WideAngle (13)
  • Reportage (17)
  • Sport (71)
    • Beach Handball (1)
    • Beach Volley (5)
    • Billiard (1)
    • Body Builiding (1)
    • Cycling (1)
    • Fighting Disciplines (24)
    • Handball (2)
    • Kite Surf (4)
    • Road Running (1)
    • Roller Derby (1)
    • Rowing (2)
    • Shooting (11)
    • Skating (4)
    • Soccer (6)
    • Swimming (Fin) (1)
    • Track&Field (5)
  • Thoughts (225)
    • Gear (67)
    • Photo Journalism (6)
    • PhotoCritics (19)
    • Photography (62)
    • Street Photography (83)
    • Technique (29)
Dear anonymous visitor, you may enjoy this web site’s contents with all the ease of not being tracked.

I do not know your identity and will do nothing to figure out who you are.

This explains why I do not ask for your consent: it is not possible to abide by the law if one’s counterpart is unknown.

I do not have social network’s ‘share buttons’, comments are disabled, as are user registration features.

I only use those cookies and pieces of code that make Google Analytics work and that will eventually be dismissed as soon as I am sure that Matomo (also installed) works as advertised.

If you check this website with some online tool you may find two cookies ‘_utmz’ and ‘_utma’. The former tracks your sessions, the latter your location. You may find more information in the Legalia and Cookie Policy page

Compulsory Information

  • Legalia
© 2025 Andrea Monti - all rights reserved