Efren Añain pushes his boat away from a "skylab," which is an open enclosure that uses nets to trap fish. Laguna de Bay (a freshwater lake in the Philippines) faces challenges related to the climate crisis.

Ric Francis

ricfrancis1@gmail.com +47 456 93 868 Norway

Topics of Focus

Marginalized communities, humanitarian, gentrification, refugees, climate crisis

Geographic Areas of Focus

Norway, Southeast Asia, and East Africa

Biography

Born in Harlem, New York, Ric is currently based in Oslo, Norway.

City University of New York, January 1989 - Bachelors of Arts Degree, Communications - Media Studies

Ric studied painting before switching to photography (under Media Studies) because of a need to more realistically document his awareness of our shared humanity. The issue of awareness began to come into focus for him as a teenager, while listening as concerned adults often complained of the media's consistent portrayal of blacks and Latinos as Other. These complaints helped him to understand how who we are can shape how we see. 

Despite how we see - experience has taught him - people are the same everywhere: we have similiar fears, cry similiar tears, celebrate loved ones and friends, encounter the sufferings of sickness and old age, and eventually mourn our dead. Such are the universality of issues which bond us as a world community.

Ric is committed to creating a visual journal that speaks of the resilience, normalcy, estrangement and injustice that characterizes the lives of Other, as he collects evidence of our shared humanity. His photographs are an expression of awareness - a highlight of the evidence he has gathered.

www.ricfrancis.net