Architecture nominee

With 192 countries participating and the focus topic "Connecting Minds and Creating the Future’ through sustainability, mobility and opportunity, Expo 2020 Dubai has been the first international event hosted in the United Arab Emirates.
Originally scheduled from October 2020 to April 2021, it was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite this, it kept the name Expo 2020 and recorded more than 24 million visits in its six months.
For the first time in World Expo history, every participating country had its own pavilion so to permit enjoying different cultural experiences and unique architectures realized for the occasion.

Francesca Pompei, graduated with honour in Philosophy, is a photographer focused on arts and architectural images, member of the board of National Association of Professional Photographers-TAU Visual from 2014 to 2020, artist of the Giornata del Contemporaneo- Italian Contemporary Art 2021 and included among the Exceptional Women In Architecture Photography.
Her work is in the permanent collection of the Fondazione Dario Mellone in Milan and it is online on LensCulture, blink, Dodho, Fondo Malerba per la Fotografia, L’Oeil de la photographie, Saatchi Art, Aesthetica Magazine, All About Photo, OpenEye, Glamour Affair, Artribune, Il Giornale dell’Architettura, Exibart, Marika Magazine, Iconic Artist Magazine, Aesthetics of Photography, Perimetro, Artdoc Photography Magazine, Better Photography, Designboom, CNN Arabic, The Times and The Guardian. Among the artists selected to celebrate Italy’s Republic Day 2020 and 2021, she is winner of prestigious competitions such as The Art of Building and the Architecture MasterPrize 2022 and 2023. Her work is included in the Annuario d'Arte Italiana 2022 promoted by Quadriennale di Roma and published by Treccani. She is a member of PhotoVogue and she is Photography Tutor and Photography Subject Expert at the faculty of Architecture of Sapienza University in Rome.