Francesca Oggiano is an Italian journalist and photographer currently based in Rome. Graduated in Sociology at the University of Rome, La Sapienza. She started working as a journalist in italian newspapers: Il Tempo, Il Messaggero and Omniroma news agency. In 2006 she became member of the Italian journalist association and started working as freelance photojournalist. In 2007 and 2008 she took part in two different workshops, both in Milan, the first one with Lorenzo Castore (Vu agency) and the second with Stefano De Luigi (VII). In 2012 she took part in Antoine D’Agata workshop in Madrid, Ojo de Pez photo meeting Barcelona and The Influencers festival, “Inside – Out” a JR’s project. Her work "The stolen eyes" a campaign against the use of rubber bullets in Spain, was short listed in Sony World photography Award 2012. After a full time work in Italian news papers and news agencies she focus her independent work on documentary photography, reportage and human rights issues. Since 2009 she started working on her long time project focus on the recycle of the Olympics Villages in Europe. At the beginning of 2013 she moved to Tunis to begin a new project: “Women in Between”. A journey along 6 countries of the Mediterranean region (Tunisia, Italy, Morocco, Spain, Greece and Turkey)  to investigate the women conditions in the Mediterranean. In 2015 she founded the collective "Maboula Collective Production".