Deborah DeFranco is a Los Angeles–based fine art photographer whose work explores impermanence and resilience through the language of flowers. In 2015, Adobe acquired one of DeFranco’s original works for Photoshop’s 25th Anniversary celebration at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Using photography as her foundation, she digitally crafts her photographs into contemplative works that invite viewers to pause—offering moments of embodied presence.

DeFranco earned her BFA, magna cum laude, from Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts, where she was valedictorian and studied with Joan Semmel, Gary Kuehn, Lauren Ewing, Judith Brodsky, and Peter Stroud. She later studied with Pat Steir and Kazuaki Tanahashi at Zen Mountain Monastery. Her work has been featured by The New York Times, The Star-Ledger, PLAIN Magazine, and VSCO, and is held in private collections in New York, New Jersey, Los Angeles, and Santa Fe.