BIOGRAPHY

Patricia Franceschetti was born in Neuchâtel (Switzerland) in 1964, and lived and studied in Turin (Italy) until 1984, when she left for England. While attending the photographic school of Elephant&Castle in London, she met and become the assistant to Romano Cagnoni. She then begins to photograph different subjects on her own and, back in Italy in 1986, she publishes her photographic stories and articles in several magazines such as, Silva, Illustrazione Italiana, Sette Corriere della Sera, Europeo, Anna, Epoca, MarieClaire, Focus, The Daily Telegraph, and Cover magazine.

In 1990 she holds a personal exhibition, with catalogue, at the Gallery “La Subbia” (Lucca), on the female sculptors who work in the marble area of Pietrasanta and Carrara.

Between 1992 and 1993 she documents boxing in Italy. The Italian Boxing Federation holds a personal traveling exhibition in Italy of her photographs.

She wins the “Villani Prize” at the Gallery Il Diaframma of Milan in 1993 with the boxing photographs. During the Gulf War in 1991 she documents the refuges from Iraq in Turkey, the American base in Incirlik, and Kurdish warriors of the PKK.

She follows all the phases of the war in former Yugoslavia, Croatia in 1991, Sarajevo, Mostar and all of Bosnia in the years 1992, 1993, 1994, the biblical exodus of muslim, croatian and serb refugees.

In 1995 she is in Grozny, Chechnya, during the heavy bombardments by the Russians.

She publishes pictures about the United Arab Emirates on The Independent, Stern, The Economist, Newsweek, Geo, Le Figaro, Financial Times, La Repubblica, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times and many other international newspapers and magazines. The same story is published on Marie Claire and Focus in Italy with her articles as well.

For the English The Daily Telegraph and Cover magazine, she writes articles about the restoration of Assisi after the earthquake of 1997.

In 1998 she is in Israel for the 50th anniversary of the state, in 1999 she is in Kosovo, where she expands and deepens the subject of the return home of refugees, already started with the other ethnic groups of former Yugoslavia.

In 2000 she is back in Israel, where she collaborates for Newsweek for a story on Palestine.

She shows her photographs on the homecoming of refugees in exhibitions at Museo dei Bozzetti of Pietrasanta (Lucca), at the Gallery of Modern Art Ricci Oddi of Piacenza and at the Scavi Scaligeri in Verona.

In 2015, together with her husband Romano, they travel to Turkey, Syria (Kobane) and Jordan, to document the refugees of the war in Syria.

In Pietrasanta, where she lives, she collaborates with various sculptors on their catalogues.

Patricia Franceschetti was born in Neuchâtel (Switzerland) in 1964, and lived and studied in Turin (Italy) until 1984, when she left for England. While attending the photographic school of Elephant&Castle in London, she met and become the assistant to Romano Cagnoni. She then begins to photograph different subjects on her own and, back in Italy in 1986, she publishes her photographic stories and articles in several magazines such as, Silva, Illustrazione Italiana, Sette Corriere della Sera, Europeo, Anna, Epoca, MarieClaire, Focus, The Daily Telegraph, and Cover magazine.

In 1990 she holds a personal exhibition, with catalogue, at the Gallery “La Subbia” (Lucca), on the female sculptors who work in the marble area of Pietrasanta and Carrara.

Between 1992 and 1993 she documents boxing in Italy. The Italian Boxing Federation holds a personal traveling exhibition in Italy of her photographs.

She wins the “Villani Prize” at the Gallery Il Diaframma of Milan in 1993 with the boxing photographs. During the Gulf War in 1991 she documents the refuges from Iraq in Turkey, the American base in Incirlik, and Kurdish warriors of the PKK.

She follows all the phases of the war in former Yugoslavia, Croatia in 1991, Sarajevo, Mostar and all of Bosnia in the years 1992, 1993, 1994, the biblical exodus of muslim, croatian and serb refugees.

In 1995 she is in Grozny, Chechnya, during the heavy bombardments by the Russians.

She publishes pictures about the United Arab Emirates on The Independent, Stern, The Economist, Newsweek, Geo, Le Figaro, Financial Times, La Repubblica, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times and many other international newspapers and magazines. The same story is published on Marie Claire and Focus in Italy with her articles as well.

For the English The Daily Telegraph and Cover magazine, she writes articles about the restoration of Assisi after the earthquake of 1997.

In 1998 she is in Israel for the 50th anniversary of the state, in 1999 she is in Kosovo, where she expands and deepens the subject of the return home of refugees, already started with the other ethnic groups of former Yugoslavia.

In 2000 she is back in Israel, where she collaborates for Newsweek for a story on Palestine.

She shows her photographs on the homecoming of refugees in exhibitions at Museo dei Bozzetti of Pietrasanta (Lucca), at the Gallery of Modern Art Ricci Oddi of Piacenza and at the Scavi Scaligeri in Verona.

In 2015, together with her husband Romano, they travel to Turkey, Syria (Kobane) and Jordan, to document the refugees of the war in Syria.

In Pietrasanta, where she lives, she collaborates with various sculptors on their catalogues.