About

An ongoing blog of selected images and commentaries about visual stories by award-winning documentary photographer Rick Rocamora. Available for editorial, events, wedding assignments and commissioned photo-documentary project. Please contact rbrocamora@gmail.com

Rick Rocamora has traveled the globe with his camera, capturing the smiles of children, the determination of freedom fighters, and the swift grace of dancers from his native Philippines, to El Salvador and South Africa. In America, he documents issues about immigrants and civil liberties, including Japanese-Americans who were incarcerated in World War II, Muslim-Americans after 9/11, Silicon Valley’s immigrant entrepreneurs, and Filipino Diaspora. His photographs have been exhibited in San Francisco City Hall, U.S. Embassies in London and Tokyo, the Smithsonian, the Center for Photographic Arts, Oakland Museum, and Gorman Museum. He was recognized as a “Local Bay Area Hero” by KQED and Union Bank of California for his work about the Filipino veterans. “Second-Class Veterans” a documentary film profiling his work about the veterans was broadcast on many PBS stations in 2003 and 2004. He has won awards from Asian American Journalist Association, SF Bay Area Press Photographers Association, California Arts Council, and New California Media. His coffee table book Filipino WW II Soldiers – America’s Second-Class Veterans was published in 2009.