ACHIEVEMENTS

• Appalshop Artist In Residency - Whitesburg, Kentucky, 2025

• 2025 Booooooom Art & Photo Book Award - shortlisted, Galaxies Beneath A Dying Sky

• Chico Review 2025 - Attendee

• Harry Gruyaert Project Selection Trieste Photo Days 2024 - Shortlisted

• Urban Photo Awards 2024 - Jury

• Wildsam Magazine - Feature on Issue 3, April 2024

• Magnum Photos x Squarespace Photography Critiques - West Safari portfolio reviewed with Steve McCurry

• 55° Truciolo D’Oro (FIAF) - "New Talent" Best Author Under 30 Prize with West Safari Portfolio

• Urban Photo Awards 2023 - Finalist “Projects And Portfolios”

• Second place at Colorno Photo Life with "SAVAGE AMERICA" - Collaboration Fanzine

• Urban Photo Awards 2023 - “West Safari” wins the exhibition prize at the Poreč Museum (Croatia)

• Lens Culture Critics Choice 2023 - Editor’s Pick

• Urbanautica Institute Awards 2022 - Special Mention for “West Safari” Portfolio

• Fine Art Photography Awards 2022 - Landscape Amateur Nominee Award - “Luna Nascente”

• Trieste Photo Young 2022 - Finalist at 2° Place chosen by Nino Migliori and Susan Meiselas from Magnum Photography

EXHIBITIONS

• Gea Vision Solo Exhibition, Bologna, August 2024

• Gea Vision Group Exhibition, Bologna, (May 18 to June 18 2024)

• Into The Night - Exhibition, Rome, (March 08 to April 11, 2024)

• NFT.NYC 2024 - Exhibition, Community Artist Showcase, New York City, North Javits, April 3-5 2024

• West Safari - Exhibition, PURO Restaurant, Trieste, October 2023

• Nowhere To Go But Everywhere - Exhibition at Trieste Photo Days, 2023

• Urban layers: Street To Sky by NINFA - “One In A Million” Exhibition, 23-29 October 2023.

• Viajes En El Tiempo - Exhibition, Fulle Galeria, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2023

• Primer'23 Music Festival - Exhibition, Athens, Greece 2023

• West Safari, Porec Museum Solo Exhibit - Porec, Croatia, August 2023

• NFT.NYC 2023 - Exhibition, Community Artist Showcase, New York City, North Javits, April 12-14 2023

• NFT Factory Paris - Exhibition, April 14-16 2023

• Ninfa Labs Gallery Opening - Exhibition, Milan, October 13, 2022

• Trieste Photo Young 2022, Certificate of Exhibition - “Luna Nascente”

PRESS

• 5 Questions with Francesco

• Il fotografo dei fantasmi del West americano - Foto Cult

• Italian Photographer Finds Beauty In Letcher County - The Mountain Eagle, KY

• Galaxies Beneath A Dying Sky featured on This Is Paper Mag

• A Portrait Of Alec Soth - Gelatin Labs Blog

• Lomography Films - Interview 2024

• Subjectively, Objective - Feature

• Lomography Films Interview

• Lomography Films - Test

• Sicily, The 51St State - featured on “Graine De Photographe”

• Affinity Spotlight - 9 tips and techniques for creating a cinematic look in your photography

• Capturing Unseen Beauty: An Exclusive Interview with Film Photographer Francesco Aglieri Rinella

• Interview by Set From Zero