Ramón Palacios-Pelletier earned his BFA in San Francisco and then began his career as a master black-and-white printer in New York City, printing for photographers such as Mark Seliger, Norman Jean Roy, Bruce Weber, and Max Vadukul. He later spent a decade based in Paris, working internationally across editorial, music, and commercial contexts. He is passionate about teaching photography and visual literacy and was the director of the postgraduate photography program at IED Madrid.