Francesco is a London-based architectural designer and photographer.
Since 2012, he has worked for award-winning, international, architecture practices. All the while, Francesco has designed and documented projects of different scale and sectors, capturing what brings them to life and the resultant impact architecture can have on communities and people lives.
He is a strong advocate of black and whitein architecture photography, where layers of reflections, voids vs volumes, light vs shadow, reveal the inner truth of a project vision. He allows his work to be affected by his passion for documentary and street photography, with the purpose to unveil how the built environment can be seen as a stage or a curated scenography for people's activities and emotions.
His long term project ‘Clapham Green’ recently became a permanent exhibition at the new St John’s Hill community centre in London, while his projects ‘Urban Theatre’ and ‘6am’ were selected to be developed under the guidance of Hélène Binet, Mimi Mollica and Lucy Monticello. Then curated for Francesco’s solo exhibition at Stazione deli Artisti in Gambettola in summer 2022; both projects were then recently selected to be part of 2024 Cesena’s cultural programme at Palazzo del Ridotto Art Galleries in Italy, which have seen artists like Guido Guidi and Ilario Fioravanti exhibited in recent years.
He recently contributed to ‘Fracture’, Mimi Mollica’s collective project about the Belice valley post-earthquake reconstruction in Sicily. which was exhibited at the 4th edition of Gibellina Photo Festival.
During Summer 2023, Francesco was selected to exhibit his work at KOOP Project Gallery in Brighton and to work under Martin Parr’s guidance on a new Mimi Mollica’s collective project in Palermo, published through a zine by Eglise.
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