Welcome to lucia Baragli Photography

I'm a Valencia based Photographer with passion for storytelling trough photography

Lucia

a bite of me

I am a professional photographer from Argentina, based in Spain. Over the past 15 years, I have been working in this field, but a few years ago, I found a new passion in Yoga. This led me to move to Asia to further my practice and study it in depth. During my stay there, I discovered a new visual world and exciting tools to express myself through body movement, drawing, and of course photography. This inner exploration ultimately led to the creation of the ongoing HUMANDALA project.

Given my background in documentary photography, collaborating with Yoga studios and documenting their stories was only natural. I have worked closely with Yogis, healers, mindful chefs, entrepreneurs, and practitioners from various backgrounds, helping them translate their thoughts, feelings, and experiences into images.

Through my journey, I’ve learned that there’s beauty in every discipline, and I’m grateful that I get to capture it through my lens. If you’re interested in seeing some of my past work as a documentalist, you’ll find it at Her Photo Journal by Lucia Baragli

I'd love to get to know you and create stunning memories together.

HUMANDALA

Is a visual art project that fuses photography, sacred geometry, and the ancient practice of yoga and meditation.

Humans, landscapes, temples, and various buildings

gather together as one shape,

a single circle that represents the wheel of life.

A never-ending loop, no end nor beginning.

Do you want to know more about the project?

Within Hue’s Imperial City, Thai Mieu Temple rises as a sacred mandala of memory and reverence. Built in 1804 under Emperor Gia Long, it honors the Nguyen Lords—from Nguyen Hoang to Nguyen Phuc Thuan—positioned in balance with The To Mieu Temple across the axis, forming a symbolic dialogue of ancestral veneration.

Its architecture unfolds in harmony: layered roofs, 13 compartments with elegant wings, pavilions aligned with palaces in all four cardinal directions. Tuy Thanh Pavilion stands at the entrance, flanked by bell and drum towers—echoes of celestial rhythm. Every element, from the walls to the five gates, reflects cosmic order and spiritual intention.

More than a structure, Thai Mieu was once the heartbeat of imperial ritual. The Sacrifice Ceremony, held every five years, honored both rulers and the meritorious officials housed in the flanking Ta Vu and Huu Vu halls.

Though the temple was destroyed in 1947 during the French resistance, a small portion was lovingly rebuilt in the 1970s. What remains today is a space of quiet devotion, where geometry and spirit intertwine.

In the lens of HUMANDALA, Thai Mieu is not just a historical monument—it is a visual mantra, where symmetry becomes memory, and ruins still pulse with reverence. Here, past and present stand in sacred balance.

Bathed in morning mist or glowing beneath a silver moon, the Taj Mahal rises like a dream carved in white marble—a mausoleum, a myth, a mandala of devotion. Built by Emperor Shah Jahan in the 17th century in memory of his beloved Mumtaz Mahal, it is both monument and meditation.

Every line, every reflection, every inlay whispers of symmetry and silence. The structure stands at the center of a vast charbagh garden—its geometry aligned with the heavens, its axis drawn not just through earth and water, but through heart and soul.

The Taj Mahal is a visual mantra: four minarets framing the dome like guards of sacred stillness, lotus motifs blooming in stone, calligraphy spiraling toward eternity. Inside, the cenotaphs float at the center of an octagonal chamber, as if love itself were the source of all design.

Through the HUMANDALA lens, the Taj Mahal is not only an architectural marvel—it is a sacred pattern of presence and longing. Its balance becomes a form of prayer, its reflection a reminder that true love, like true symmetry, transcends time.

Here, love is not an emotion.
It is a structure.
A silence.
A perfect, enduring shape.

Within the labyrinth of Marrakech’s ancient Medina lies the Ben Youssef Medersa—an architectural mandala of devotion, knowledge, and sacred geometry. Built in the 16th century by Sultan Abdullah Al-Ghaleb Assaadi, this spiritual and intellectual sanctuary stood for centuries as a beacon for scholars across the Islamic world.

Here, the architecture speaks. Intricate Zellige tiles—floral and geometric—whisper the language of sacred design, harmonizing with the silence of ancient courtyards and carved cedar ceilings. Each detail is a prayer in pattern, a rhythm in stone.

More than a building, the Medersa is a visual metaphor: a space where the pursuit of wisdom mirrored the universal order. In the context of HUMANDALA, its forms echo the infinite—the circle of learning, devotion, and unity between human purpose and divine architecture.

Paragon Bridge, Singapore _Camatkarasana

Rising from the misty highlands of Java, Borobudur is not merely a temple—it is a mountain of enlightenment, carved in stone and aligned with the cosmos. Built in the 9th century, this Mahayana Buddhist monument unfolds as a three-dimensional mandala, guiding pilgrims from the earthly realm toward spiritual awakening.

Its design spirals upward through nine stacked platforms, echoing the path of ascension. Over 2,600 relief panels and 500 Buddha statues line the journey—each a visual mantra, each a moment of meditation etched into volcanic stone.

At the summit, open-air stupas encircle the stillness of the central Buddha—a symbol of formless perfection. Silence reigns here. The geometry of liberation.

Within the HUMANDALA vision, Borobudur becomes the archetype—a pure union of architecture, landscape, and spirit. Its circular form echoes the eternal cycle, while its precise alignment with cardinal points and sacred mountains roots it in cosmic balance.

To walk its path is to move through time, thought, and breath. To see it through the lens is to witness the sacred unfolding in symmetry—where stone speaks, and stillness teaches.

Borobudur is not built to be seen from afar—it is meant to be entered, circled, felt. A mandala not on paper, but in the world.

Rising from the civic heart of Singapore, the National Gallery stands at the threshold of past and present—an architectural synthesis where neoclassical form meets contemporary vision. Once the Supreme Court and City Hall, its colonnades and domes now cradle a new purpose: to reflect the evolving identity of a nation through art.

In the lens of HUMANDALA, the Gallery becomes more than stone and space. It becomes a still axis in the city’s unfolding mandala—a structure where the symmetry of the human body finds resonance with the ordered grace of Corinthian columns, radial staircases, and light-filled atriums. The dialogue between history and humanity finds form in the quiet repetition of arches, the careful balance of proportion and poise.

Here, colonial gravitas dissolves into spiritual geometry. The former halls of judgment now invite reflection. The silence between artworks becomes a living void—an open circle, waiting to be entered, inhabited, understood.

In this sacred framing, the National Gallery is not just a keeper of Southeast Asian art. It is a vessel of transformation—where civic memory and creative future spiral inward, together. A contemplative mandala where architecture, identity, and stillness converge.

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EMBROIDERY

In a fast-moving world, memories easily slip away into digital clutter. I transform your personal stories —wedding snapshots, family portraits, or pet photos— into personalized, conceptual embroidery.
These custom art pieces give raw emotion and quiet moments a tangible, lasting form.