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.

A Philosophy graduate, Francesca Pompei is specialised in Art and Architecture Photography and her professional collaborations include projects for AD-Italia, the Vatican City State, Emre Arolat Architecture, Jaca Book, Living Corriere della Sera, Artribune, Venaria Reale, the Cultural Heritage Ministry, the Italian Embassy in Qatar, TheTimes, The Guardian and The Washington Post. Artist selected to celebrate Italy’s Republic Day 2020 and 2021, she is winner of prestigious competitions such as Architecture MasterPrize 2022 and The Art of Building. She is included among the Exceptional Women In Architecture Photography and in the Annuario d'Arte Italiana 2022 promoted by Quadriennale di Roma and published by Treccani .
Her projects have been published on an international level and exhibited as part of solo and group exhibitions. She is a member of Sign Press and PhotoVogue, in addition to her role as a Professor of Photography in the Image and Storytelling Studio course of the Design, Multimedia and Visual Communication Department of the Faculty of Architecture in Sapienza University, in Rome. Since 2023 she has been appointed Photography Subject Expert at the faculty of Architecture of Sapienza University in Rome. Since 2025 she has been member of the Freelancers Network of The Washington Post.