Ron Moultrie Saunders, a co-founding member of the *3.9 Art Collective, is a photographic artist and landscape architect. Originally from Jamaica, Queens, New York, he currently lives in the Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco. He creates photograms: photographs that are made without the use of a camera. Ron’s work as an artist, in many ways, is in service of nature. His care for his subjects, whether discarded flower petals or a seed that has not sprouted, is guided by dignity and love.
*In 2010, a local paper estimated that the black population in San Francisco would eventually fall to 3.9 percent of the city’s total. This statistic caught the eye of Bayview artist Ron Moultrie Saunders and a group of his fellow artists. Ron teamed up with Nancy Cato, Rodney Ewing, Sirron Norris, and William Rhodes to form the 3.9 Art Collective. Their very existence is an act of resistance against the forces causing the African American population to dwindle. In 2025, the population of Black or African American people living in San Francisco is 5.09% (42,547 out of a total population of 768K)