Born in 1939, Francis Giacobetti is recognized as one of the greatest contemporary photographers and has steadily earned the respect of his peers. With a rare aesthetic sensitivity and visual refinement, he has made his mark in a richly productive career lasting over 40 years.

Today Francis Giacobetti’s photos are present major Museum collections. Among them : Le Louvre Paris, The Tate Gallery London, Midtown Museum Tokyo.

Francis Giacobetti is also a gifted creative director, at ease in a wide range of media, as is evident in the radical ideas that he evolved in the world of advertising, magazine, fashion, beauty and perfumes.

He is for the last 20 years the creator and art director of Ipsa, the most awarded line of Shiseido.

Known in France to be the photographer and spirit of the cult men’s magazine “Lui” and director of the cult movie “Emmanuelle 2”, he was the photographer of the legendaries 1970 and 1971 Pirelli calendars and part as well of the Sotheby’s milestone book “techniques of the great world photographers”.

Francis Giacobetti was awarded by the Art Director club of New York – Frankfurt – London – Tokyo

In 1980 Francis Giacobetti started his life project HYMN, roaming around the world on a quest for a rather unusual Graal: to meet and to capture the faces and the eyes of the great world spirits and figures of our times. Hymn will be shown in 2010 in a major art book and a large exhibition around the world.

In 2009 the exhibition “Francis Bacon by Francis Giacobetti” will take place at The Kings Place Gallery in London before touring the world.

This compelling work of more than 70 portraits is the result of a 3 years intense collaboration between the artists just before Francis Bacon death.

Francis Giacobetti is an aesthete with a compassionate regard for others. With is restless curiosity he has found strong visual metaphors for the physical and metaphysical mysteries that ultimately define all human existence.