RICK ROCAMORA has won awards for his images and picture stories from Asian American Journalist Association, SF Bay Area Press Photographers Association, New California Media, Media Alliance; he was awarded a California Arts Council Art Fellowship and a Local Bay Area Heroes Award from KQED and Union Bank of California for his work about Filipino WW II Veterans. His work is widely exhibited in national and international museums and galleries. His work is part of a collection of American arts most recently exhibited at the Court of Saint James in the United Kingdom and the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo. His work is included in the traveling exhibition “Points of Entry-A Nation of Strangers,” which was exhibited at the Smithsonian, Center for Photographic Arts, Museum of Photographic Arts, and other venues. His images are part of “Pork and Perks - Corruption and Governance in the Philippines” a National Book Award winner in the Philippines in 1994. “Second-Class Veterans” a film produced by Don Young that profiled Rocamora’s undying efforts to document the day-to-day lives of Filipino veterans was broadcast on PBS stations in 2003 and 2004. His book about Filipino WWII veterans, "America's Second-Class Veterans" is scheduled for publication before the end of 2008. He is also working on a project about Muslim-Americans after 9/11.
Photo-Documentary Projects
Muslim-Americans - Living with Freedom and Fear in America
Filipino World War II Veterans - AMERICA'S SECOND-CLASS VETERANS
LUNDZI KIYA MALONGA
Unbroken Spirit - Muslim Filipinos in time of War
MANILA'S INVISIBLE CHILDREN
CUBA SI!
San Salvador..City Under Siege
Exhibitions
Unbroken Spirit - Muslim Filipinos in a time of war, PUSOD, Berkeley, CA
Lundzi Kiya Malonga - Studio One, Oakland, CA
Points of Entry - A Nation of Strangers - Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego
Freedom and Fear - Bay Area Muslims after 9/11 - San Francisco City Hall
America's Second-Class Veterans - Gordon Museum, UC Davis
Arte in Cambio di Acqua - Libreria Azzalia, Milan, Italy
Filipino Diaspora - California - Manila Heritage Foundation Gallery, San Francisco, Ca
Collection of American Art - U.S. Embassy, Tokyo, Japan
AWARDS
Visual Art Fellow- California Arts Council
Local Bay Area Hero - KQED and United Bank of California
Photographer of the Year - Media Alliance
Photographer of the Year - New California Media
Bay Area Press Photographers Association
Asian American Journalist Association
Commissions and Book Projects
Book Project - Filipino WW II Veterans-AMERICA'S SECOND-CLASS VETERANS - Publisher -VEC
Exhibition - Bay Area Health Centers - Community Health Center Network
Exhibition - Human Face of the Struggle for Civil Liberties - ACLU
Exhibition - Its About Time - National Japanese American Historical Society
Book Project - Pork and other Perks - Corruption and Governance in the Philippines - Phil. Center for Investigative Journalism
Book Project - What it took me to get here - Young writers on a journey through life -SF Writers Corps
Book Project - Driving While Black or Brown -ACLU of Northern California
Book Project - Caught in a Backlash - ACLU of Northern California
Documentary Film - Web Documentary Projects
Web Documentary - TRACKED ON AMERICA - ACLU of Northern California
Film Documentary - SECOND CLASS VETERANS - Produced by Donald Young and Vida Benavides @2002 TRT:30minutes - Profiles Filipino photographer Rick Rocamora and his tireless effort to document and reveal the stories of Filipino World War II veterans. - www.asianamericanmedia.org