In “Momentos,” Monaris turns the street into a stage for quiet observation. The book gathers 48 images made in urban settings, where the photographer’s attention falls on the human figure—its gestures, its pauses, its small dramas—against the hard geometry of buildings and pavement. Her approach is patient and compositionally exact: color is calibrated, reflections are used as hinges, and passersby are caught in the middle of ordinary motion. The result is not a survey of a city but a study of how people inhabit one, and what a camera can hold onto as time moves through it.

The photographs are preceded by an introductory text by Dave Krugman, who writes about photography as a conversation across time. His essay frames the act of pressing the shutter as a way of pulling a slice from an unyielding flow—a way to linger on connection and beauty that would otherwise disappear as quickly as light. That idea runs through the sequence: these are moments that might have gone unnoticed, fixed long enough to be considered. Monaris is credited as the photographer throughout; Krugman’s contribution is as author of the accompanying text, and the two roles are kept distinct.

Setanta Books published the first edition in 2021 as a hardcover of 96 pages, measuring 24 by 30 centimeters in portrait orientation. The book’s scale gives the photographs room to breathe, and the sequence moves with a steady, deliberative pace rather than a rush of images. For a collector, the interest lies in that discipline—the way a small, tightly edited body of work can articulate a visual language through motifs, juxtapositions, and compositional weight, as the book’s own text puts it. It is a considered object, and the photography within it rewards the kind of looking that returns.