Francisco Molina Reyes II is a Nuyorican visual artist & writer. His photographs and articles have appeared in various publications and periodicals, including: Latin New York Magazine (NYC), Fama Magazine (NJ), Latino News (NYC), New York Latino (NYC), NY Newsday, NY Daily News, NY Post and El Diario/La Prensa (NYC). His photos have, also, been featured in the NYU literary journal, Black Renaissance Noire (Spring 2008), En Foco's Nueva Luz (Vol 17, No.1), New York Daily News (2012), The New York Times | LENS (2012), The HUFFPOST NEW YORK - Huffington Post (2013), TIME | LightBox (2013), Le Journal de la Photographie | La Lettre (2011), HUE Magazine (FIT 2015), ABC "World News Now" (2015), and Univision (2016), and have been licensed by various University Press publications -- most recently: South Bronx Battles (McLaughlin, 2019); American Sabor: Latinos and Latinas in US Popular Music (Berríos-Miranda, Dudley & Habell-Pallán, 2017); and Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon (Rosario, 2014).

Francisco is one of the original members of the acclaimed "Seis Del Sur" collective of six Nuyorican/Boricua photographers. In 2011, he was entered into the US Congressional Record, in honor of his photo-documentation of the Puerto Rican/Latino community. |Congressional Record Vol. 157, No. 65|

As a writer, Francisco continues to expand his vision through textual renderings. AFRO BLUE: Visions from the Chant (Mambóso Nuyotópia Archives, 2015) is his first published book of selected poems and creative writings. A second book, Entre Las Sombras y La Luz (Mambóso Nuyotópia Archives, 2024), is slated for release in early 2024.

(rev. 10/07/2023)