Isabella La Rocca González

BIOGRAPHY

Isabella La Rocca González is an artist, writer, activist, and educator working primarily with photography. Her work is part of a long tradition in art and photography: to bring to light and find beauty in the hidden, unconscious, or disregarded. As the daughter of emigrants from Mexico and Italy respectively, she strives to reconcile values from her Indigenous roots with her European heritage. Awards for her work include the Ferguson Grant from the Friends of Photography in San Francisco, CA for excellence and commitment to the field of photography. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally including a solo show at the Center for Photography in Woodstock, NY. Her book of photographs and creative nonfiction, Censored Landscapes was published in November of 2024 by Lantern Publishing & Media. She has taught art and photography on the post-secondary level for thirty years and founded the Photography program at Centre College in 2017. Isabella holds an an MFA in Photography from Indiana University and B.A. in Fine Arts from the University of Pennsylvania. 

AWARDS/GRANTS

• 2022 Puffin Foundation grant for Censored Landscapes
• 2019 Second Place Winner in the NYC4 PA Dusk to Dawn exhibition
• 2014 Finalist, Dotphotozine Award for Excellence in Photography
• 2014 Culture & Animals Foundation grant for Censored Landscapes

PUBLICATIONS

• “The Forgotten 10 Billion Lives: A Tale of Suffering, Survival, and the Fight to See Farmed Animals,” by Isabella La Rocca González published in The Observatory, Nation of Change, and Counterpunch. May, 2025
• Psychology Today, “Factory Farms: An Exposé Of the Realities of the Animals’ Lives,” By Marc Bekoff Ph.D., December, 2024