Roman Franc was born in 1983 in Brno, Czech Republic. He studied social sciences and physical education at Masaryk University’s School of Education in Brno, earning an M.A. in 2008, followed by an M.F.A. in Photography in 2015 from the Institute of Creative Photography, Silesian University, Opava, Czech Republic, where he continued in a doctoral program. Currently, Franc is an external teacher at the Institute of Creative Photography of the Silesian University. 

Franc worked on projects with the office of the Czech President Václav Havel. He has since devoted himself to freelance photography and enjoys working with the Flexaret 6x6 medium-format camera. He focuses on non-traditional portrait and staged photography. 

Franc organizes and teaches photography courses and workshops for private and public institutions, with an emphasis on inspirational environments and experiences.  Franc has exhibited in the United States and the United Kingdom.  His photographs are in collections of the Library of Congress in Washington DC, the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, and Moravian Gallery Brno. 

Franc was featured in the FotoFest Houston exhibition Velvet Generation in 2019, curated by Steven Evans. He is an author and co-author of several books, including My Name Is Hungry Buffalo which was selected in 2017 as one of most beautiful books in the Czech Republic.