Francesca Tosarelli (1984) has been living in Brasil, Italy and the UK. She has a BA in History of Arts and a Master in Photography; she has been working as assistant photographer for Shobha (Contrasto) in Sicily, Thailand and India.
In 2011 she began working as a freelance photojournalist. She’s a member of Matchbox Media Collective.

She’s based between London and Italy.

She had been working with her company for more than 1 year on ‘Sandgrains’ a documentary film about the destruction of the beaches and the overfishing in Cape Verde. (www.sandgrains.org)

PUBLISHED ON: Le Monde, Guardian Weekend Magazine, Courrier International, 6 Mois, D (Repubblica), Semanal, El Pais, GEO France, Spiegel online, Freelance Photographer, Rainews24, Private Photojournalism among others.

EXHIBITIONS: SOLO
4th March 2011 – 26th March 2011, “The rebirth of Coney Island”, WerkStadt, Berlin, DE
August 2009, “Metalli Preziosi, precious workers”, Imola, Bologna, IT

GROUP
June 2011, “Italian contemporary artists”, Italian Embassy, London, UK
February 2011, “Genius Loci, The Spirit of the place and cultural diversity”, The Royal Horseguards, London, UK

SCOLARSHIPS
June 2011, winner of the scolarship “Advanced postproduction and ethics in the photojournalism” with C. Palmisano by 10b photography, Rome, IT
May 2010, winner of the scolarship “Photography workshop in New York”
with E. McDonald, A. Sullivan, “The intuitive document” by SpazioLabo’, Bologna, IT