Lucas Foglia
Today, nature both heals us and threatens us. As we spend more time than ever indoors looking at screens, neuroscientists demonstrate that time outside is vital to human health and happiness. – Lucas Foglia
Lucas Foglia grew up on a small family farm in New York and currently lives in San Francisco. His photographs examine the relationship between human belief systems and the natural world. This interest was evident in an early photography exhibition at Brown University’s David Winton Bell Gallery, A Natural Order, which portrayed people who left cities and suburbs to move off-grid in the southeastern United States. More than a decade latter this same interest continues in his recently published third book, Human Nature, with Nazraeli Press. Human Nature brings together a series of photographic stories about how we rely on nature in the context of climate change. Each story is set in a different ecosystem: city, forest, farm, desert, ice field, ocean, and lava flow. The photographs examine our need for “wild” places—even when those places are human constructions. Read the in-depth review recently presented in Lensculture
A selection of Photographs from Human Nature…
His feature and video interview were published in the 2010-2011 edition of the Networks project, which featured a selection of Rhode Island based Artists across a broad spectrum of media and interests.
A video Interview with NetWorks Photographer Lucas Foglia
About the Artist: A graduate of Brown, Foglia, born in 1983, received his MFA in photography from Yale University in 2010. His impressive curriculum vitae belies the fact that the young artist grew up with his extended family on a small, self-sustainable farm, living off the land. In The Garden project Foglia worked with the South Side Community Land Trust in Providence, producing a portfolio of images that portrayed different ethnic communities coming together to grow food. Nazraeli Press published a monograph of “A Natural Order,”
Foglia exhibits internationally, and his prints are in notable collections including International Center of Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Victoria and Albert Museum. He photographs for magazines including National Geographic Magazine and The New York Times Sunday Magazine. Foglia also collaborates with non-profit organizations including Sierra Club and The Nature Conservancy. You can find current work and updates at http://lucasfoglia.com/news/
Source: NetWorks 2011-2012 Catalogue
You can find more of Lucas Foglia work on his website at lucasfoglia.com
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