§ Our Team
Past Present Future
The working artists who lead our expeditions. They have spent their careers in the light they will teach you to see.
At the London Photographic Workshop, we believe that time is essential to photography.
Every photograph belongs to an instant: it carries the memory of what came before, reveals the truth of what exists now, and offers a glimpse of what has yet to arrive.
Our team has been created around these three dimensions of time—past, present, and future. Each member brings a distinct vision, a particular knowledge, and a unique way of seeing the world.
Together, we do not simply teach photography. We explore the vast cultural landscape that surrounds it: art, fashion, history, technology, human relationships, and the endlessly evolving language of images.
I am Luca, master photographer, artist, and creative leader of the London Photographic Workshop. Allow me to introduce our team.
The Present
Giulia, Anna, and I represent the present. We inhabit the world as it is today: immediate, restless, alive. We observe the latest movements in photography, art, fashion, and contemporary culture—not as distant spectators, but as working professionals who participate in their creation.
As a photographer and artist, I will lead you into the living craft and evolving language of contemporary photography—where light, matter, time, and human presence converge to create meaning. Together, we will explore the most advanced cameras, lighting systems, grip equipment, materials, and image-making techniques, not as a catalogue of technologies, but as instruments of discovery. You will learn to read light before shaping it: to recognise its direction, texture, colour, silence, and emotional force. Technical knowledge will become instinct, and instinct will become visual expression—allowing you to build images that carry your intention, your experience, and your distinctive way of seeing the world.
Above all, you will learn to choose each tool with clarity and purpose, mastering the equipment without surrendering to it. Because the camera may record the image, but it is your vision that must give it form, necessity, and life.
This knowledge is strengthened by our relationships and collaborations with many of the world's most respected photographic manufacturers and professional brands, including Hasselblad, Profoto, Broncolor, LEE Filters, Rosco, ARRI, Bowens, Sunbounce, Pelican, and many others. Technology, however, is only the instrument. The photographer must still provide the eye, the mind, and the soul.
Giulia will lead you into the world of contemporary fashion. She comes from the extraordinary tradition of Parisian haute couture and spent several years directing an atelier at Dior in Paris. For more than twelve years, she has also been one of the leading directors of the London Photographic Workshop.
Through Giulia, you will discover what fashion means today: its changing aesthetics, its cultural influences, and the visual codes that shape contemporary imagery.
She will teach you how to style a photograph, develop a concept, assemble a creative team, and collaborate successfully with fashion directors, stylists, makeup artists, hairstylists, and set designers. Fashion photography is never created by one person alone. It is an intricate conversation between talents—and Giulia will teach you how to begin that conversation and how to lead it.
Anna brings another essential perspective: the experience of the person standing in front of the camera. A remarkable professional model who has worked with the London Photographic Workshop for several years, Anna will teach you how to communicate with models clearly, respectfully, and creatively.
She will show you where to find the right models, how to approach them professionally, how to explain your ideas, and how to provide direction on set. Most importantly, she will help you understand how to create a working environment founded upon trust, dignity, clarity, and safety. A photographer does not take something from a model. Photographer and model create something together.
Giulia, Anna, and I are the present: the living moment, the contemporary gaze, the world unfolding before the lens.
The Past
To understand where photography is going, we must first understand where human vision has been. The past is represented by our wonderful friend Ruben—a renowned painter, sculptor, classical artist, and historian of art. Even his appearance seems to belong to another century, as though he had stepped quietly out of an old master's canvas to join us on our journey.
Ruben reveals the connections between photography and the great inheritance of human civilisation. He will teach you how to read the history of a place, understand its architecture, recognise its symbols, and discover the ideas concealed within works of art. In his company, buildings cease to be silent structures. Statues begin to speak. Ruins recover their voices.
Why was this building constructed in this particular way? What does this image represent? Which beliefs produced this monument? Why did an ancient civilisation raise an immense structure in the middle of the desert? Ruben helps us search for the answers.
Through him, the past becomes more than a collection of dates and vanished empires. It becomes a living archive of beauty, ambition, faith, power, imagination, and human endeavour. He teaches us that before we can photograph what stands before us, we must learn to see what lies behind it.
The Future
And finally, we come to the future. To speak authentically about the future, one needs someone who already appears to live there. That person is Hélio.
Hélio seems to come from nowhere—or perhaps, more accurately, from another time. He inhabits the near future: a world only a few steps beyond our own, already forming quietly around us. His field is tomorrow.
Hélio explores the technologies, ideas, and cultural transformations that will shape photography, design, art, and human life. He will introduce you to the possible futures of the photographic image—not only in the coming years, but across the next century.
What will photography become? How will technology transform the way we create, communicate, remember, and imagine? What will remain human when machines can produce images? What new artistic languages will emerge from artificial intelligence, computational vision, immersive environments, and technologies that have not yet been named? Hélio does not offer easy predictions. He opens doors. Through his vision, the future ceases to be a distant abstraction. It becomes a creative territory—strange, challenging, exhilarating, and full of possibility.
One Team, Three Dimensions of Time
Past. Present. Future.
Ruben reveals the foundations upon which our visual culture was built. Giulia, Anna, and I explore the living reality of photography today. Hélio looks beyond the horizon towards the images and ideas of tomorrow.
This union of history, contemporary practice, and future vision is the secret of the London Photographic Workshop. It is what makes our team unlike any other.
Whether you join us for a photographic workshop, a creative journey, or an expedition into some extraordinary corner of the world, you will learn far more than how to operate a camera. You will learn to understand what you see. You will learn to communicate with the people you photograph. You will learn to recognise the memory of the past, the intensity of the present, and the first light of the future.
And I, Luca, will lead you through that journey—not simply as a teacher, but as a photographer and artist who still believes that every image begins with curiosity, every journey begins with wonder, and every great photograph is a meeting between time, light, and the human soul.
Welcome to our world. Welcome to photography across time.
§ The Roster
01 — NYC, USA
Luca Monti
Founder, Master Photographer
Luca Monti is a radical photographic artist whose work pushes traditional processes into a territory that is epic, monumental and transcendent. He works through analogue photography, historical techniques and material intervention with a restless, uncompromising appetite for transformation. In his images, light becomes matter, bodies become apparitions and the visible world is forced beyond its ordinary limits. During his personal artistic research, Luca has travelled around the world two and a half times, crossing continents, cities and remote landscapes in pursuit of images with the force of revelation. His practice is driven by a single demand: that photography should not merely represent reality, but rupture it - opening it towards myth, mystery and the unknown.
@ellemmephotostudio
02 — London, UK
Giulia Peduzzi
Art Director, Fashion Stylist
Giulia began her model career in Italy before moving to London, where her work with London Photographic Workshop helped define her path in creative direction. She went on to lead the visual identity of Milk+ Studio and later Sunshoot Studio, developing a practice shaped by image, atmosphere and narrative. Recruited to Paris by Maison Dior as Directrice d'Univers, she now works across fashion, culture and contemporary visual language. A tireless traveller, she is drawn to the measured light of David Hockney, the memory-laden work of Christian Boltanski, and the radical physicality of Pina Bausch and Sasha Waltz. Her soundtrack, by contrast, remains proudly and unapologetically pop. Through Giulia, you will discover what fashion means today: its changing aesthetics, its cultural influences, and the visual codes that shape contemporary imagery.
03 — Paris, France
Anna Ramfel
Numero 2, Creative, Model
Anna Ramfel moves between engineering, casting and image-making as if they belonged to the same private system. With a model's instinct for presence and a casting manager's eye for hidden charge, she works through faces, light and atmosphere to construct photographic worlds that hover between precision and hallucination. Her art direction is fuelled by travel, unstable sound and material vision. She gravitates towards the fractured electronics of Mira Vostok and the spectral acoustics of The Glass Harbours, while finding visual kinship in the luminous disruptions of Olafur Eliasson and the sensory, post-human experiments of Anicka Yi.
@nymphorchidea
04 — Venice, Italy
Ruben Garbellini
Artist, Historian of Art
Ruben Garbellini (born 14 December 1976) pursued studies in the humanities and the arts in Bologna, Verona, Milan, Barcelona, Grenoble and Paris. He made his theatrical debut in 1993 and, that same year, embarked on his journey as a painter—one that would lead him to devote his life to art across Italy and Europe, particularly in Paris, where a significant part of his artistic career unfolded.
@ruben_garbellini
05 — Bangkok, Thailand
Hélio Chen
X Files, Designer, Futurologist
Hélio is a Thai-born artist transmitting from the edge of the next century. Working between electronic matter, artificial vision and spatial fiction, he constructs post-human environments where circuitry blooms, bodies dissolve into signal and landscapes behave like living machines. His work does not illustrate the future; it leaks from it. Drawing on the biomechanical delirium of H. R. Giger, the algorithmic weather systems of Refik Anadol and the speculative architectures of Cao Fei, Hélio produces unstable realities: seductive, synthetic and just beyond recognition.
@cellulemere
06 — Milan, Italy
Valeria Tiziani
Best Boy Grip
Valeria Tiziani is a traveller at heart, with a background in modelling and a growing passion for the physical, collaborative world of film production. Drawn to work behind the camera, she has found her natural place as a best boy grip, where precision, movement and the practical choreography of a set come together. Her visual world is nourished by travel, theatre, dance and contemporary sound - from the conceptual compositions of Edda Nox to the shifting rhythms of Aerial Rooms. She is equally drawn to experimental art, particularly the theatrical installations of Tino Sehgal and the sculptural investigations of Cecilia Vicuña.
If you were expecting the usual vaguely smiling faces in improbable branded T-shirts, we're not that kind of team.