Bob Farese, Jr. is a physician, scientist and photographer. His research in medicine and cell biology has taken place at UCSF, Harvard and Memorial Sloan Kettering. He learned photography mainly from Gueorgui Pinkhassov, Laura El-Tantawy and Matt Black. He splits his time between the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City.
His first photobook, Am I Not Light (Lecturis, 2021), combines photographs and a poem. It looks at loneliness and belonging.
His second book, A Perfect Medium (MW Editions, 2026), is about water. It began as a literal search for water and slowly became abstract. It focuses on patterns, light and movement. The photographs were made in places such as Iceland, Chile, Spain and the Faroe Islands.
