Jason Francisco

"I am a photographer and a writer working creatively with the possibilities of photographs as social documents. Very much concerned with the particularities of histories, communities and places, my projects each in their own way (described below) also attempt a larger answer to what viable documentary practices might become." – Jason Francisco

Jason Francisco studied at Columbia University, the University of Wisconsin - Madison and Stanford University, where he received a MFA. Francisco has taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford University. He is currently Assistant Professor at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. Franciso is a photographer, book artist, critic, historian and philosopher. Franciso’s work is in the collections of the Stanford University Library Special Collections, the Bancroft Library, University of California-Berkeley, the Biblioteque Nationale de France, and the Judah Magnes Museum. Francisco projects include The Villages: Rural India at the End of the Twentieth Century, Chinatown, A Germantown Document and Far from Zion: Jews, Diaspora, Memory.