Francis Zera is an architectural, aerial, commercial-industrial, and construction photographer based in Seattle. Originally from Massachusetts, he has worked as a newspaper and magazine reporter, photographer and editor. He has been working as a photographer for more than 25 years. His commercial and advertising clients range from local and international architecture, construction, and engineering firms to manufacturers and airlines.
His art has been purchased by many of these same clients, and hangs in lobbies and boardrooms all over the country.
He is a graduate of Greenfield Community College in Massachusetts, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Argosy University. He also studied fine-art photography at the Savannah College of Art and Design. He is also a certificated private pilot and a commercial sUAS (drone) pilot.
He is a president emeritus of ASMP Seattle/NW, and a past instructor of architectural photography, business, and marketing at the Art Institute of Seattle.
