About

Joma Geneciran (they/them) is an organizer, researcher, and documentary photographer based in Los Angeles.

Their work brings together photography, political economy, and public scholarship, with a focus on agrarian change, dependency, and national sovereign development in the Philippines. Their work is concerned with how knowledge intersects with material struggles over land, labor, and sovereignty, and ongoing struggles to move beyond dependency and toward alternative forms of development.

Working across documentary and editorial forms, they move between the structural and the intimate, with attention to atmosphere and texture.

Selected Work & Public Scholarship

Their visual work includes PSONA, a long form photo series documenting counter protests during the People’s State of the Nation Address; Balik, a diasporic return project exploring absence, homecoming, and be-longing; and LA Intifada, documenting resistance to ICE in Los Angeles.

They also co host JDPOD, a political education podcast on global political economy and social movements.

Their writing has appeared in Middle East Critique and Review of African Political Economy. They teach courses on global political economy, development, and ideology at the University of California, Irvine.