Born in Rome in 1975, he is the son of Francesco Di Giacomo, a respected director of photography, and Eleonora Pallottini, a script supervisor and daughter of Riccardo Pallottini, who was also a director of photography. Initially, he tried to avoid working in the film industry. After finishing high school, he decided not to continue his studies and ended up working as a volunteer for his father. The technical work of an assistant cameraman captivated him. For ten years, he worked as an assistant and later as a camera operator, collaborating with Alessio Gelsini Torresi AIC, Fred Shuler ASC, and especially Nicola Pecorini, with whom he transitioned from assistant to camera operator.
A collaboration as a director of photography with director Laura Bispuri made him discover this new role, which he became passionate about. While continuing to work for years as an assistant and then as a camera operator, he began directing the photography of short films, music videos, and documentaries. In 2004, Libero de Rienzo entrusted him with the cinematography of Sangue – La morte non esiste. Among other films he shot are L’attesa, the debut feature by Piero Messina, starring Juliette Binoche; the sci-fi comedy Addio fottuti musi verdi by The Jackal; Orecchie by Alessandro Aronadio; the teen fantasy Non mi uccidere by Andrea De Sica; and La regola d’oro by Alessandro Lunardelli. In 2019, he collaborated with Pietro Marcello on Martin Eden. In 2022, Esterno notte by Marco Bellocchio, a hybrid between film and miniseries centered on the kidnapping of Moro, was released in theaters and on television. Di Giacomo returned to collaborate with Bellocchio for Rapito, a historical film focused on the figure of Edgardo Mortara.
