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Francesca Volpi, born in 1985 Brescia - Italy, is an independent photographer who through personal stories documents the humanitarian consequences of conflicts, exploring how the contexts of war, socio-economic disparities and climate change affect people's lives.

She began her career as a journalist. After graduating from London College of Communication, she worked for the BBC International Service Europe Today Radio Program, then she started her career with her first photographic reportage experience in the South-Kivu region in the Republic Democratic of the Congo. 

She approached the world of photojournalism in 2013 when she documented the deposition of late President Morsi in Egypt. In 2014, she embarked on a freelance journey starting from the Maidan Revolution in Kiev, the annexation of Crimea to the war in eastern Ukraine where she had worked for two years.

Francesca prefers long-term jobs that allow her to linger and deepen her knowledge about the places and themes of her work. In 2016, she moved to Mexico and Central America where she began an in-depth documentation of Honduras. She was, indeed, looking for a different photographic narrative, dealing with 'micro' stories that helped her having a perspective on macro-issues including the violence of the world of the Maras , environmental conflicts, civil rights of the LGBTI community and health system problems. Together with her personal projects supported by various grants and fellowships of the International Women's Media Foundation, Francesca continuously collaborates with the Wall Street Journal for which she has extensively covered the pandemic of Covid-19 in Northern Italy, then Bloomberg News, The Washington Post, The New York Times, L'Espresso, Le Journal du Dimanche, The Guardian and various important international organizations.