Francis Baker is an Oakland-based artist and photographer whose camera-less photographic works engage with the ecological and psychological fallout of consumer culture. Drawing on a background in physics and decades of self-directed practice, he subverts historic processes, like gum bichromate and gelatin silver darkroom techniques, alongside found materials to create layered images that merge material presence with conceptual depth. Baker’s hybrid method merges sunlight, plastic detritus, and metaphoric structures to reveal the entanglement of environmental degradation, generational trauma, and resilience. His work has been the subject of critical writing and publication, and has been widely exhibited, including at the de Young Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Bakersfield Museum of Art, and Marin Museum of Contemporary Art.