- The first pictures he made in 1958 with a Kodak Brownie were already a subject for an artist book.
- First attempts of making books with photographs and silk screen prints from 1977 to 1980 (luckily not vailable anymore).
- 1980 he founded Editions Phi in Luxembourg. The initial intension was to publish his own works.
- Editions Phi gradually became a leading publisher in Luxembourg for poetry, theater plays, litterature, essays and art.
- In 2001 Francis sold Editions Phi to the Luxembourger Newspaper "Tagablatt"
- Only a very few of the limited hand printed Editions of that time (1980-2001) are still available.
- A beautifull catalogue was published and is still available and can be ordered by e-mail.
- In 2005 Francis moved to his present location in Achill Island on the cliffs overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.
- In 2009 they started a new collection of "Fluxus Assembling Boxes"
- In 2011 they start collecting Polaroid cameras and make books with Polaroid photographs. They launch also a new website "www.polamad.com"
- They travel around the world showing their books at Art Book Fairs (London, Mainz, Paris, Frankfurt, Hamburg, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seoul...),br.