Frances Pelzman Liscio has studied with John Loengard, Eva Rubenstein, Lisette Model, Sean Kernan, and other fine art and media photographers. Her work has been reproduced in numerous rock music anthologies, newspapers, and magazines, as well as cd and record covers, liner note photos and band tour books. She has also been the photo editor of numerous books on rock and punk, and she worked as a photo editor at Rolling Stone Magazine.  Ms.Liscio has a BFA in photography and printmaking from Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York.

Originally a music photographer specializing in punk, rock, and country music, Ms. Liscio has now turned her focus to botanicals and the natural world. Punks and Roses defines Ms. Liscio's unique style."I photographed the punks as if they were rare botanicals and I photograph my botanicals as if they were rock musicians. What I attempt to underscore in both treatments is the fragile beauty that tempers our mortality--and the mortality that makes such beauty even more precious."