I'm Francesco Grigori Di Bene — photographer, videomaker, and chronic traveller based in Italy.
I started shooting in 2010, and what began as an obsession with light and timing has grown into something harder to define: a way of being in places, of staying long enough to see what doesn't show up in the first five minutes. I work on assignment, which means I've spent a lot of time in cars on bad roads, waiting for the right moment, talking to strangers, getting things wrong before getting them right.
My work sits somewhere between documentary instinct and visual storytelling. I'm drawn to the gritty and the specific — the detail that makes a place unmistakably itself, the frame that holds more than it shows. Whether I'm shooting a vintage motorcycle rally in the mountains, a corporate event, or a man alone in a river at dawn, I'm looking for the same thing: something true that also happens to be beautiful.
I've collaborated with companies, agencies, and independent clients across Italy and internationally — including RCS, Sky, and the Federazione Motociclistica Italiana — producing photo and video content for campaigns, documentaries, and branded storytelling. I care about craft, but I care more about whether the work actually says something.
Parallel to my commercial work, I've been developing Chronogenics — a long-term art project on genetic memory and identity that started from a personal place and keeps growing from there.
If you're looking for someone who shows up curious and leaves with images worth keeping — let's talk.