“Rendre visible ce qui nous met en mouvement” — to render visible what moves us — is the invisible thread running through Laura’s work.

At the intersection of photography, curation and cultural projects, she develops artistic experiences where movement becomes presence, memory and transmission.

Her gaze seeks to reveal the truest moment — the one that escapes spectacle yet resonates deeply — whether it emerges underwater alongside apnea athletes during major international freediving events, on the world’s most prestigious dance stages, or within the stories of a life devoted to creation.

Through her underwater photography, Laura explores the encounter between the human body and the ocean, capturing raw and sensitive images beyond conventional visual codes. In parallel, she directs a movement-focused curatorial gallery, bringing together artists with singular universes within a contemplative experience designed to slow the gaze. Her cultural projects — books, exhibitions and encounters — extend this vision by connecting artistic heritage with contemporary audiences.

Guided by a profoundly human approach, she creates spaces where images are not consumed but lived — felt, crossed and transmitted.

Her work invites each viewer to reconnect with an essential part of themselves: that intimate impulse that sets us in motion.

Laura MOMMICCHI

Laura Mommicchi in Africa with horses and kids

Artistic Approach

I develop a photographic practice rooted in immersion, created in breath-hold, in direct contact with water.
This medium lies at the core of my work—not simply as a setting, but as a space of physical and perceptual experience.

Water shifts reference points: bodies, light, orientation. It slows, constrains, supports, resists.
In immersion, time alters, breath becomes central, and attention is displaced. This condition shapes my way of photographing, engaging the body as much as the gaze.

My images begin with prior preparation, often through drawing, where forms, gestures, and compositions take shape.
This stage allows me to anticipate the constraints of water—visibility, buoyancy, light—and to maintain precision in the act of photographing.

I work with models within immersive situations.
Beyond staging, this becomes a shared experience in which the body adapts, yields, or enters into tension with its environment. Postures, movements, and physical states form a visual language.

Water acts as a revealer. It alters forms, unsettles perception, and transforms the relation to space.
What emerges is never fully stable nor entirely controllable. The image takes shape within this balance between intention and unpredictability.

Through this practice, I seek to create images that move beyond representation toward experience.
Immersion becomes a way of accessing another quality of presence—more sensitive, more interior—where body and image transform together.

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