Marzia Gamba

Marzia Gamba was an Italian photographer and art director with a rare gift for turning the ordinary into something quietly extraordinary. Born in Pesaro, she grew up in a family where creativity and craft were woven into everyday life — her father an entrepreneur in the textile industry, her mother an architect and jewellery designer. That world shaped her from the start. She studied at Central Saint Martins in London, then earned her degree in Graphic Design and Art Direction at NABA in Milan. A hunger to follow photography wherever it would take her led her to Rome — where she learned the craft of darkroom printing under the legendary Claudio Abate — and eventually to New York, where she completed a master’s at the International Center of Photography and opened her own studio in Brooklyn. Her still life work had a particular magic: she could find a whole story inside a grape, a flower, a drinking glass. Commercial clients across food, wine, jewellery, and luxury goods knew it too. Her series “I like food better than people” captured something true about how we relate to the objects that surround us. In 2021, she returned to Milan and founded Spazio Alma — part studio, part home, part community — a place as alive and layered as she was.