About

Jason Francisco (born 1967, California) is an artist and writer working on the cultural aftermath of political violence, new directions in the art of witness, historical consciousness in the flow of everyday life, the interplay of photography and nondual contemplative practices, and the intersection of poetry and photography.

Francisco's large-scale photoworks include Autobiography of an Unknown American (with poems by Alexander Nemerov, Fall Line Press, 2026), Alive and Destroyed:  A Meditation on the Holocaust in Time (Daylight Books, 2021), The Camp in its Afterlives (2010-2026), An Unfinished Memory:  Jewish Heritage and the Holocaust in Eastern Galicia (Galicia Jewish Museum, Kraków, 2014-2018), After the American Century (2002-2018), Big City (1989-2026), Far from Zion:  Jews, Diaspora, Memory (Stanford University Press, 2006), and The Villages:  Rural India at the End of the Twentieth Century (1990-1997).  His writings include Laurence Salzmann:  A Life with Others (University of Pennsylvania Libraries, 2021) and The Steerage and Alfred Stieglitz (co-authored with Anne McCauley, University of California Press, 2012).  He is also the author of numerous limited edition photobooks, experimental photo-poetic texts and films, reportages, essays, and criticism.  This website—conceived as a cross between archive and laboratory—contains over 250 of his works made between 1990 and 2026.

Francisco is an associate professor in the Visual Arts program at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.  He received his education at Columbia University, King's College London, and Stanford University.