Francesca Todde is a photographer, designer and publisher. She work mainly on personal long-term projects and her practice includes in the creative process the editorial aspect and the diffusion in printed form. Her research focuses on the invisible elements of relationships, sometimes crossing stories of sharing with animals.
She co-founded with the artist Luca Reffo the publishing house Départ Pour l’Image.
Francesca’s work has been exhibited in solo and collective shows in Europe. In 2021 her work was selected for Circulation(s), festival of Young European Photography and for Cortona on the Move festival. In 2022 she made a retrospective exhibition at the Manuel Rivera Ortiz Foundation in Arles. In 2024 a solo exhibition about her last project IUZZA. Goliarda Sapienza will be hosted in the Centre Photographique Rouen Normandie.
Her book A Sensitive Education, an investigation around the possibilities of empathy between different species, was released in January 2020. Awarded with the Ponchielli Prize for the best photographic book 2020/21. Special mention at the Marco Bastianelli Award for the best Italian photographic book 2020. Her new book IUZZA. Goliarda Sapienza was released in July 2024 by Départ Pour l’Image.
Her books have been featured on photography platforms as Conscientious Photography Magazine by Jörg Colberg, Collector Daily and American Suburb X.
Her pictures have been published on magazines and newspapers worldwide including Le Monde, The British Journal of Photography, Financial Times, 6Mois, M le Magazine du Monde, Vogue, DLui di Repubblica, Fisheye, Zadig, Granta, Yet magazine.
Selected exhibitions:
2024 Centre Photographique Rouen Normandie, FR
2023 Le Champ des Impossibles, FR
2022 Fondation Manuel Rivera Ortiz, Arles, FR
2022 Fotofestiwal Lodz, PL
2022 Les Boutographies, Montpellier, FR
2022 Officine Fotografiche Roma, IT
2022 FotoForum Bolzano, IT
2021 Circulation(s) Paris, FR
2021 Cortona on the Move, IT
2021 PVF Festival, Helsinki, FI
2021 ULTRA, Prato, IT
2021 Festival 10x10, Gonzaga, IT
2021 Arcoop Wall Project Geneve, CH
2020 Officine Fotografiche Milano, IT
2020 Les Nuits de Pierrevert, FR
2019 BYOPaper! Arles, IT
2019 In_Cadaques Festival, ES
2018 Looking On, MAR Ravenna, IT
2017 Impossible Project Paris, FR
2016 Reflexions, CAMERA Torino, IT
Interviews and book reviews:
Conscientious Photography Magazine by Jörg Colberg
British Journal of Photography by Frankie Lister-Fell
Vogue by Francesca Marani
Collector Daily by Olga Yatskevich
American Suburb X by Brad Feuerhelm
Photomonitor.co.uk by Francesca Marcaccio Hitzeman
Photoeye 2020 Best Books by Terri Weifenbach
Domus by Raffaele Vertaldi
Fabien Ribery L’Intervalle Blog
Photobookstore Best books of 2020 by Terri Weifenbach
Fisheye Magazine by Eric Karsenty
Blind Magazine by Anne Laurens
Rolling Stone Italia by Francesca Orsi
Selected publications include:
The British Journal of Photography, Financial Times, 6Mois, Le Monde, M le Magazine du Monde, DLui di Repubblica, Vogue, Fisheye, Zadig, Granta, Yet magazine.
