Francesco Francaviglia, Sicilian photographer, was born in Palermo in 1982 where studied the cello with Giovanni Sollima and cinema at the Teatès School under Michele Perrier. In 2006, a cellist through discipline and study, and a photographer thanks to a pressing instinct, he gave birth to his first photographic work "Terra Aria" about the wine production in Sicily. In 2009 he attended the International School of Photography APAB in Florence, assisted by the Fondazione Fratelli Alinari, the IED European Institute of Design in Rome and Milan and courses at the Officine Fotografiche in Rome. Between 2013-2014 he initiated his work on "The Fasting Women-against mafia”, presented to the public for the first time at Palazzo Ziino in Palermo. In autumn 2014 this work was the first photography solo exhibition hosted by the prestigious Uffizi Gallery and published his 1st photograph book (The Fasting Women, published by Postcart and edited by Marco Delogu, with texts by Pietro Grasso President of the Italian Senate, Franca Imbergamo Magistrate of the National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor, Antonio Natali Director of the Uffizi Gallery), received the mention as the best photographic project on Sicily from Ragusa Photo Festival and FIAF 1st prize Portfolio Italia as best photographic work of 2014. In 2014 he was also invited to participate in the XIII International Festival of Photography edition in Rome with his work “Poets from the dark #1”. From July to September 2015, he exhibited to the public his new project “Mediterranean Darkness–portraits from the carnage”, exclusively for the MACRO in Rome and published his 2nd book (Mediteranean Darkness published in a special and limited edition by BAM), and presented a new work "Invisible Faces", a focus on women's immigration. His photographs have been published in major Italian newspapers. From 2014 he deals with the social advertising campaigns of Unicoop Firenze and teaches portrait photography at the IED. “Holocaust 3.0” curated by Augusto Pieroni is the result of a long term project developed in Lampedusa island and in reception centers for refugees and asylum seekers. He currently lives in Firenze.