Federica Belli was born in 1998. Having photographed since the age of 11, she started her career in photography at the age of 18 by winning the prestigious Master of Photography prize, held annually by Sky Arts. From that, she built a polymorphic path by becoming at once the assistant of the renowned advertising photographer Oliviero Toscani to perfect her visual language and a student of Economics and Marketing at the Bocconi University to put herself in the shoes of the brands commissioning her images. By the side of her Mentor, she traveled to Paris, London and Zurich for campaigns. To complete her formation, she then moved to New York to assist the celebrity portrait photographer Chris Buck while working as photo-editor at Musée Magazine, in order to learn how to manage models and public personalities while absorbing the priorities of a magazine when selecting photographs to publish. She thus built very early a comprehensive and professional profile for managing commissions.

Alongside her commercial works, she has been developing a body of personal work which has quickly gained recognition internationally for her delicate yet powerful representation of individual identity and self-awareness. Represented in Milan by Galleria Valeria Bella, her works have been exhibited in several exhibitions in Europe, United States and Mexico and regularly appears in art fairs such as ParisPhoto, PhotoLondon, ZSonaMaco and MIA Photo Fair. Some of her prints have over time become part of institutional exhibitions such as #ICPConcerned by the International Center of Photography in New York, DecentralArt Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, and the show Fotografe! at Forte di Belvedere in Florence among others.

Capturing the essence of the subjects in front of her, she depicts what is most unique and magnificent as much about a human as about a perfume bottle or a necklace. Her obsession is the idea of essence in itself, and she represents it combining a classical idea of beauty with groundbreaking visual language.

After 7 years living and working between Milan and New York, she has moved to Paris setting up a studio in le Marais. Her current projects regularly bring her to Portugal and Mexico City, where she is represented by the gallery Almanaque Fotografica.