Lucas Foglia is an American photographer.
His first three photobooks were published with Nazraeli Press, and they fit well the presentation the Rencontres d'Arles festival was making of his series "A Natural Order" in 2012: « Lucas Foglia makes photographs about places where wilderness and culture intersect: people moving off the grid in the rural southeastern United States, mining boom towns and ranching and farming communities in the rural West. » These three photobooks are "A Natural Order" (2012), "Frontcountry" (2014) and "Human Nature" (2017).
In 2021, he publishes "Summer After" with Stanley / Barker, a series of black & white photographs he made in New York City in the summer of 2002.
Shared among these series is an obvious talent for portraiture.
© Portrait taken from the artist's website
Presentation by Stanley / Barker: " « This is how I remember New York City in 2002. I was 19 years old and had just moved to Manhattan from my family's small farm on Long Island. It was the first summer after the September 11 attacks. Workers were removing the last of the debris from the collapsed Twin Towers. The city felt both immense and fragile...
Publisher's presentation: "Foglia writes, “I grew up on a small farm in the suburbs, thirty miles east of New York City. The forest that bordered the farm was my childhood wilderness, a wild place to play that was ignored by our neighbors who commuted to Manhattan. In 2012, Hurricane Sandy flooded our fields and blew down the oldest trees in the woods. On...
.Sold out.Publisher's presentation: "Between 2006 and 2013, Lucas Foglia traveled throughout rural Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Wyoming, some of the least populated regions in the United States. Frontcountry is a photographic account of people living in the midst of a mining boom that is transforming the modern American West. "After A...
.Sold out. Lucas Foglia nous conte ici le quotidien d'une communauté de jeunes américains vivant quasiment en autarcie "dans la nature", dans la négation du confort et des règles qui organisent nos journées et nos vies. Des images éclatantes de lumière et de simplicité, belles et pleines de joie souvent, mais aussi parfois crues voire violentes. Ce...