Lucas Foglia

Lucas Foglia (born 1983) is an American photographer, living in San Francisco.[1][2] "His work is concerned mainly with documenting people and their relationship to nature", for which he has travelled extensively making landscape photography and portraiture.[3]

Foglia's Human Nature has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) in Chicago[4] and at Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam.[5] His work is held in the collections of Denver Art Museum,[6] MoCP,[7] Philadelphia Museum of Art[8] and Portland Art Museum.[9]

Early life and education

Foglia was born on Long Island, New York.[1] His parents were part of the back-to-the-land movement and he grew up on their farm, 30 miles from Manhattan.[10] He studied at Yale School of Art, Yale University, Connecticut.[1][2]

Work

Foglia's first two books A Natural Order (2012) and Frontcountry (2014) merge landscape photography and portraiture.[11] According to Sean O'Hagan in The Guardian, the portraits in those books and in Human Nature (2017), "occupy that tricky, slightly heightened hinterland between documentary and staging."[12]

A Natural Order "looked at people who lived off the grid in the American backwoods – drifters, Christian communities, back-to-the-land hippies, survivalists".[11] It was made over five years and several long trips south in a camper van.[10]

Frontcountry is a book of two halves, depicting the contrast between the contradictory lifestyles of ranching and mining in the contemporary American West. It was made between 2006 and 2013 in Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas and Wyoming.[11]

Human Nature is "a series of vignettes about the relationship science, government, and individuals have with wilderness and nature."[13]

Summer After (2021) contains black and white portraits of people that Foglia met on the street in New York City in 2002 in the wake of the September 11 attacks, after he moved to Manhattan.[3][14]

Publications

Books by Foglia
  • A Natural Order. Portland, OR: Nazraeli, 2012. ISBN 978-1590053522.[15]
  • Frontcountry. Portland, OR: Nazraeli, 2014. ISBN 978-1590054062.[11][16]
  • Human Nature. Paso Robles, CA: Nazraeli, 2017. ISBN 978-1-59005-464-2.[17][18][19]
  • Summer After. UK: Stanley/Barker, 2021. ISBN 978-1-913288-26-6.[20]

Books with contributions by Foglia

Solo exhibitions

Awards

Collections

Foglia's work is held in the following permanent collections:

References
  1. Stevens, Jenny (17 September 2015). "Lucas Foglia's best photograph: cowboys Casey and Rowdy in the Nevada desert". The Guardian. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
  2. "Biography". lucasfoglia.com. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
  3. "Photographing New York's first summer after 9/11". i-d.vice.com. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
  4. "Lucas Foglia: Human Nature". www.mocp.org. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
  5. "Lucas Foglia - Human Nature". Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
  6. "Search the Collections". www.denverartmuseum.org. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
  7. "Museum of Contemporary Photography". www.mocp.org. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
  8. "Philadelphia Museum of Art - Collections : Search Collections". philamuseum.org. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
  9. "Lucas Foglia". www.portlandartmuseum.us. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
  10. O'Hagan, Sean (13 July 2012). "Lucas Foglia: the photographer in search of off-the-grid Americans". The Guardian. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
  11. O'Hagan, Sean (1 April 2014). "Call of the wild: photographer Lucas Foglia beds down in the American west". The Guardian. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
  12. O'Hagan, Sean (10 October 2017). "Human Nature by Lucas Foglia review – into the wild". The Guardian. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
  13. Murrmann, Mark. "Americans spend 90 percent of their lives indoors. These photos will make you want to get outside". Mother Jones. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
  14. "Portraits of New Yorkers from the Summer After 9/11". The New Yorker. 11 September 2021. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
  15. "A Natural Order by Lucas Foglia". Time. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
  16. "'Frontcountry': photographer Lucas Foglia captures the American heartlands". Wallpaper. 28 March 2014. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
  17. "A Photographer's Journey Through Our Ever-Weirder Relationship to Nature". The New Yorker. 14 November 2017. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
  18. "Menselijke natuur". De Standaard. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
  19. Coghlan, Andy. "Stunning shots capture how we interact with our natural world". New Scientist. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
  20. "Summer After captures the fragility of a post-9/11 New York". Creative Review. 2 September 2021. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
  21. "Prix Pictet 2019 shortlist – photo essay". The Guardian. 5 July 2019. Retrieved 2021-09-10.
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