FRANCISCO ROCKY GARCIA Photography
Portraits. Memory. Light.
Francisco Garcia
Photographer
THROUGH LIGHT AND SHADOW, I DOCUMENT THE SOUL OF A MOMENT.
Francisco Rocky Garcia is a San Francisco native with deep roots in Chicago. A decorated Vietnam War veteran, community activist, and award-winning photographer, his life has been shaped by resilience and creativity.
With a BA from San Francisco State University and an MFA from California College of the Arts, Garcia’s work has appeared in prestigious exhibitions and national publications — including the Studio Museum in Harlem, Eye Gallery, and The New York Times. His images reflect the power of memory, social struggle, and the enduring beauty found in human connection.
Portfolio
Each image in this collection is a story — of history, of struggle, of spirit. My work spans decades, exploring identity, resilience, and the unspoken language of light and shadow.
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Returning to Vietnam after 30 years stirred mixed emotions: fear, uncertainty.
Would I be welcomed — or shunned?
I intended to take portraits of the casualties scattered across the countryside — lives interrupted, souls resilient.
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Returning to Vietnam after 30 years stirred mixed emotions: fear, uncertainty.
Would I be welcomed — or shunned?
I intended to take portraits of the casualties scattered across the countryside — lives interrupted, souls resilient. -
Returning to Vietnam after 30 years stirred mixed emotions: fear, uncertainty.
Would I be welcomed — or shunned?
I intended to take portraits of the casualties scattered across the countryside — lives interrupted, souls resilient.
DARKER THAN BLUE
ISBN 978-0-692-9009-8
PUBLISHED NOV 2024
First Edition signed by the author
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EQUIPMENT AND PROCESSING
HASSELBLAD 500C
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HESSELBLAD 1: 5.6 250 (MM)
For timeless street and portrait photography
Every photograph I create is the result of deliberate vision and hands-on craftsmanship.
LINHOF TECHNIKA (4X5)
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Francisco Rocky Garcia's ineffably beautiful photographs are a revelation, reminding us that so much incredible jazz was performed in intimate, dramatic settings throughout a time made recognizable in retrospect as been a fertile and rich as any period before or since.
Eric Whittington
owner - Bird & Beckett Books & Records
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Realism of Francisco Garcia's riveting photographs is tempered with the transitory poetry of fragmented light. ....These disembodied sparks skip across the chiaroscuro of the print's surface with the spontaneous improvisation of jazz notes."
Carla Maria
Verdino-Süllwold, The Studio Museum in Harlem Hale Woodruff Biennial
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Francisco Garcia’s ineffably beautiful photographs are a revelation…
Musa Delimuza
Milan, Italy
Limited Edition Prints & Books
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Every photograph I create is the result of deliberate vision and hands-on craftsmanship.
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EVERY IMAGE BEGINS WITH A CONVERSATION.
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