Franco Tulli was born in Turin, Italy, on August 2, 1962.

His childhood coincides with the years of early space travel and the wild race to conquer the moon. A great reader of science fiction novels, he grows up with the desire to become an astronaut so he can go to the moon and into space. He will not achieve this dream but will find in scuba diving a chance to visit the sea floor and the oceans.  To be almost weightless, to breathe air or other mixtures from an external apparatus and to be able to admire bizarre and incredible creatures will make him feel as if he were a protagonist of those books he read in his youth and, in the end, to have at least partially realized that childhood dream. His studies in computer science, which would form the basis of his main work, were accompanied by specific studies in photography at the Lateran University in Rome, which would stimulate his passion for photography and in particular nature photography. After taking his first underwater certifications, in the 1990s he purchased his first underwater camera, the legendary Nikonos III, and began to show what his eyes, full of wonder, observed during dives made in Seas and Oceans all over the planet.

His main goal, from the very beginning, has been to make images that would excite and show to a possibly wider and wider audience the beauty of the marine world so as to entice people to explore it but at the same time love and respect it. This particular approach to underwater photography has led him, over the various years, to small and great personal satisfaction: from winning numerous international competitions to exhibiting photographs in such extraordinary places as the United Nations building in New York to having his shots published in such prestigious publications as Asian Diver, Asian Geographic, National Geographic USA, Unterwasser, Scuba Diving, Lonely Planet, Mare and many others.

His shots have received numerous awards through major international photography contests, including the World Shootout, Asian Geographic, Australian Geographic, Adex China VOO, Siena Awards, Scuba Diving Contest, Oasis Photo Contest, Ocean Geographic, Asferico, Cimasub, FestiSub, PAF Tachjov, World Water Day Photo Contest, Sublimage Festival, Deep Visions, Tokyo International Foto Awards, Galathea, Underwater Photo Marathon, MFPF and many other national ones.

Not content with just showing pictures, over the years he has collaborated with numerous magazines including the prestigious National Geographic and some industry ones such as Scubashooters and Scubazone.

He currently maintains a regular column in Huffington Post where he describes and illustrates the many wonders of our  Oceans, but also the many issues related to coexisting with humankind. Since the transition from film to digital he has chosen to use Canon cameras, while as an underwater housing the choice, after many years of using the Italian Easydive of which he was also a Brand Ambassador, has recently fallen on Nauticam.

For many years, he has had the pleasure of being also the Brand Ambassador of Orcatorch, whose lights accompany him with great satisfaction on every dive and photo shoot.

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Shot winner of numerous awards including Best of the Show at WorldShootout and Asian Geographic. It was released in the Lembeh Strait (Indonesia and depicts a small octopus of about 3 cm (Octopus Marginatus) as it rests inside its home made up of the shells of a seashell.

Image of a Rhinomurena with a small ghost shrimp with eggs on its snout. The shot was taken in the Lembeh Strait and won numerous awards including 1st place macro in the Deep Visions Contest.

The shot taken in Raja Ampat (Indonesia) depicts a school of sweetlips above a coral dish and surrounded by numerous other species.  The image has received numerous awards including one from MFPF.

This bucolic image was taken in the spring pond of S.Giorgio a Liri in Italy and has also won numerous awards in faraway New Caledonia.

A beautiful pair of Mandarin fish during mating. The shot taken in the Lembeh Strait (Indonesia) was possible thanks to the use of the Orcatorch D710V underwater flashlight with the red light option, which allows you to get very close to the subjects without scaring them away.