Rich-Joseph Facun
Rich-Joseph Facun is an Otomí and Pinoy storyteller, photographer, and publisher based in the Appalachian foothills of Southeast Ohio. His long-term, post-documentary practice uses portraiture, landscape, and everyday observation to explore the intersections of geography, history, and culture, and how these forces shape communities, identity, and belonging. He is the author of three monographs: Black Diamonds (Fall Line Press, 2021), Little Cities (Little Oak Press, 2022), and 1804 (Liars Corner, 2026). Together, the books trace…
Rich-Joseph Facun is an Otomí and Pinoy storyteller, photographer, and publisher based in the Appalachian foothills of Southeast Ohio. His long-term, post-documentary practice uses portraiture, landscape, and everyday observation to explore the intersections of geography, history, and culture, and how these forces shape communities, identity, and belonging. He is the author of three monographs: Black Diamonds (Fall Line Press, 2021), Little Cities (Little Oak Press, 2022), and 1804 (Liars Corner, 2026). Together, the books trace an evolving engagement with place, history, and the people who inhabit it. Facun’s books are held in permanent collections at Yale University, the Getty Research Institute, and the Musée Nicéphore Niépce. He is founder and creative director of LIARS CORNER, an independent publisher dedicated to amplifying marginalized and underrepresented voices through thoughtfully crafted artist books and photobooks.
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1804
Rich-Joseph Facun · Liars Corner
Conscientious Photography Magazine · cphmag.com
“1804 makes me curious about the people in its pictures, and that’s a good thing at a time when every effort is being made to stifle people’s curiosity — and by extension their empathy — for each other."Read review
1804
Rich-Joseph Facun · Liars Corner
The PhotoBook Journal · photobookjournal.com
“Facun avoids dramatic gestures and allows elegant sequencing to carry the narrative weight.”Read review
1804
Rich-Joseph Facun · Liars Corner
F-Stop Magazine · fstopmagazine.com
“Facun’s photographs drift between portraiture and landscape, between observation and implication.”Read review
1804
Rich-Joseph Facun · Liars Corner
The Guardian · theguardian.com
“Facun photographed college life in Athens to examine the stresses and strains that come from being a progressive enclave in a conservative landscape.”Read review
Little Cities
Rich-Joseph Facun · Little Oak.PRESS
PhotoBook Journal · photobookjournal.com
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The Washington Post · washingtonpost.com
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Black Diamonds
British Journal of Photography · 1854.photography
“Black Diamonds transcends stereotypes of Appalachia, instead documenting Facun’s more nuanced experience as both a member of and outsider to its communities. In turn, his photographs bridge the distance between him and his new home.”Read review
Black Diamonds
CNN · cnn.com
“Facun's resulting survey of Appalachia doesn't reduce the region to its politics, but instead is an exercise in making connections and understanding his home.”Read review
Black Diamonds
It's Nice That · itsnicethat.com
“There are so many stories to be unearthed throughout Rich-Joseph’s Black Diamonds, having met a range of inspiring people in the process of shooting…[The book] is a kind and honest documentation of the community he’s now part of.”Read review
Black Diamonds
Strange Fire Collective · strangefirecollective.com
“Where do we bury our deepest lights, our brightest darks, for sunshine lamps to find? Facun uses his camera to find out. To think about language and internal landscapes; putting old words, old worlds into new pictures.”Read review
Black Diamonds
The Washington Post · washingtonpost.com
“…it’s work that transcends a particular place or people. It’s about community, how we build lives, how each of us either does, doesn’t or tries to fit in. We forget and forget and that’s why repeated reminders like “Black Diamonds” are important.”Read review
