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LUCA VALLETTA.

Ballet,
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The archive

The dancers

Portraits from the studio to the street.

Ballet portrait

About

The body as one more form in the room.

Digital craftsman with an analogue eye. I photograph dancers the way you would light a sculpture — one clean line, one strong side, everything else allowed to fall away.

The black and white isn't a filter: most of this archive is shot on a Leica M11 Monochrom, a camera that only sees in tones. From the studios of Wellington to the streets of Tokyo, the squares of Rome to the trams of Hong Kong, the work follows one idea.

Based in Wellington, New Zealand · working worldwide.

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Sessions 2026 / 2027 — dancers, companies & schools, wherever I'm shooting.

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