Photographer Tania Delmonte was born in Castelfranco Veneto, about 50 kilometers from Venice in her father’s Italy, where she spent the first twelve years of her life immersed in art, nature and old world charm. Her voyage to the new world found her amidst the turquoise-infused waters and perpetually welcoming people of her mother’s land, The Bahamas. For decades she has called both countries home. 

Tania remembers growing up with a keen sense of freedom and family, of the things that matter, and art has always been one of those things. Surrounded by history in Italy, constantly going to museums and on nature walks with her father, the art and craft lessons in school only confirmed what she already knew: art was something she couldn’t escape, didn’t want to escape. It was the way she sought and found wonder. And, since wonder is not indigenous to any one place, Tania finds beautiful things to behold and preserve almost anywhere she goes. Her life in The Bahamas, in many ways, waters the seeds planted during those early years in Europe. For her, geographical distinctions and cultural differences have served to encourage her craft, not hinder it. 

Describing photography as both a talent and a skill, Tania says, “I think you have to evoke something which doesn’t come with the technical part of it.  I like imperfection and spur-of-the-moment in photography and anything could inspire me. It’s a very personal thing.”

From her first $70 point and shoot Kodak to her more sophisticated digital companion today, Tania captures the wonder she finds around her: in people, in unplanned activity, in rites and ceremonies, and nature in its intended and haphazard glory. 

The works in her first solo exhibit held at The Ladder Gallery in Nassau Bahamas in November 2016, few which had already been mounted at The Merlino Bottega d’arte, an art gallery in Florence, are a combination of the wonder she’s found in both Italy and The Bahamas. In September of 2017, she exhibited at the Galerie Bertrand Kass, in Innsbruck, Austria and later in September was part of the “Artiste du Monde” held in Cannes, France.

“I hope that through my eyes people can see or feel something,” Tania says.

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Biography written by Patrice Francis