Paolo Monti, one of the most important Italian photographers, is passionate about photography to the point of choosing it as a profession. After the war he moved to Venice, a city that marked a turning point, both for the contact with the lagoon reality, and for the meeting with that group of photographers with whom in 1948 he founded the photographic club "La Gondola". Since 1953 he has been in Milan where he consolidates his critical and experimental attitude becoming one of the most successful authors also on an international level.