Jason Fran­cis­co (born 1967, Cal­i­for­nia) is an artist and essay­ist. Join­ing doc­u­men­tary and con­cep­tu­al art, his pho­toworks and writ­ings focus on the com­pli­ca­tions of his­tor­i­cal mem­o­ry, and new direc­tions in the art of wit­ness. Much of his work con­cerns the inher­i­tance of trau­ma, specif­i­cal­ly con­cern­ing Jew­ish expe­ri­ence in east­ern Europe. Work­ing cur­rent­ly as a full-time artist, Stitt pro­duces images that reflect on the social land­scape and the way it shapes our expe­ri­ences, past and present. With influ­ences from street pho­tog­ra­phy and the New Topo­graph­ics move­ment, his pho­tog­ra­phy speaks to a sense of place, time, and famil­iar­i­ty of every­day envi­ron­ments and the land­scapes they create.