Mauro Talamonti is an Italian photographer and film mkaer from Turin.
After graduating in Design & Visual Communication at the Polytechnic University of his hometown,
he moves to London to pursue his education in photography and cinematography at Saint Martins College.
He spends many years based in Bangkok while working on documentary photography, film making, street, fashion and adv campaigns which take him all around the world.
In 2022 he becomes a UN Staff Photographer
Among other assignments:
2011 Los Angeles NewYork LANY project feat Jeep
2014 Ukraine conflict for the Italian press
2017 Lavazza’s Single Origin Campaign, Brazil & Peru
2019 sponsored by WWF he accompanied explorer Alex Bellini, navigating the Gange river from Varanasi to Kolkata
while documenting plastic pollution in the water
2019 Honda MotoGP Team’s official photographer & filmmaker
2022 UN IOM South Sudan
Prizes: ASPA Festival – Biennale Marte Live – PIVI Italian Music Video Award – Coorpi Festival – nomination at the Cinedans Festival Amsterdam.
He has recently returned to Italy where he works from his private studio.