Francesca was born on January 25th 1976 in Parma, where she still lives.
She was fond of photography since teenager, but her hobby became a job after she got involved with the rugby sport world. Francesca starts photographing this sport in 2003, becoming then the official photo-reporter of the team Gran Rugby Parma. In the summer 2004 she worked as Beach Rugby Championship official photographer. At the end of the 2004 Francesca was endorsed photo-reporter of the LIRE (Italian Rugby Premier League). During the 2005 first half, Francesca studied fashion photography at the Milan European Design Institute, where she approached a kind of photography entirely different from the sport archetype, achieving in this way a more skilled and versatile professionalism. Moving from an idea by Enzo Barbieri –the person in charge for the LIRE events- in October 2005 a book of her photos has been published with the title 'Diario Italia Rugby', a selection of images intended to describe the emotions caught through a whole rugby championship year. Her friends Festuccia, Castrogiovanni, Pozzebon and Masi collaborated for the volume. A new edition of the book ('Diario Italia Rugby 2') is nowadays under progress and will be in all the bookshops from September 2006. This issue is also prepared together with Enzo Barbieri, with the cooperation of the maestro Alfonso Borghi and Andrea De Rossi, Paolo Vaccari, Valerio Bernabo, Robert Barbieri. Francesca is actually working to a top-secret project, whose more details will be disclosed around the end of the year. Moreover, she is in fact following other sports as well, such as the Italian A series Soccer Championship, marathons and bicycle rides (in collaboration with the Foto Studio 5 agency) and she is appointed photographer of the Mysticfreeride team, a group of guys practising downhill in summertime and freeride during the winter. Her photos are also published on 'Gazzetta dello Sort', 'Rugby!', 'La Meta', 'Gazzetta di Parma'.
In January and February Francesca worked for the 'Turin 2006 Winter Olympic Games as Venue Photo Manager of the Freestyle track in Sauze d’Oulx. She is solely utilizing Nikon digital equipment, and belongs to the NPS (Nikon Professional Service), in addition to her partnership in TAU visual, the Italian Professional Photographers Association.