Bio

Francesca Pompei, graduated with honour in Philosophy, is a photographer focused on arts and architectural images, member of the board of National Association of Professional Photographers-TAU Visual from 2014 to 2020, artist of the Giornata del Contemporaneo- Italian Contemporary Art 2021 and included among the Exceptional Women In Architecture Photography. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Fondazione Dario Mellone in Milan, Italian Institute of Culture in Sofia and it is online on LensCulture, blink, Dodho, Fondo Malerba per la Fotografia, L’Oeil de la photographie, Saatchi Art, Aesthetica Magazine, All About Photo, OpenEye, Glamour Affair, Artribune, Il Giornale dell’Architettura, Exibart, Marika Magazine, Iconic Artist Magazine, Aesthetics of Photography, Perimetro, Artdoc Photography Magazine, Better Photography, Designboom, DIVISARE, CNN Arabic, The Times, The Guardian and The Washington Post. Among the artists selected to celebrate Italy’s Republic Day 2020 and 2021, she is winner of prestigious competitions such as The Art of Building and the Architecture MasterPrize. Her work is included in the Annuario d'Arte Italiana 2022 promoted by Quadriennale di Roma and issued by Treccani and is in the permanent collections of Dario Mellone Foundation Milan, MoCA Venice, Italian Institute of Culture in Sofia, Rome Cultural Heritage Department (Sovrintendenza Capitolina), Embassy of Italy in Qatar. Publications and editorial clients include AD-Italia, Vatican City State, Emre Arolat Architecture, WOHA, Bjarke Ingels Group-BIG, Jaca Book, Phaidon, Living-Corriere della Sera, La Venaria Reale, Artribune, Ministry of Culture, Embassy of Italy in Bulgaria, Embassy of Italy in Doha, Qatar. She is a member of PhotoVogue run by Alessia Glaviano, Head of Global PhotoVogue and Director of PhotoVogue Festival. She is Photography Professor and Photography Subject Expert at the Architecture Department of La Sapienza University in Rome. Since 2025 she has been member of the Freelancers Network of The Washington Post.