Franck Vogel | |
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| Born | 1977 (age 46–47) Strasbourg, France |
| Occupation | Photojournalist specializing in social & environmental issues |
| Known for | Bishnoi, Transboundary Rivers |
| Website | https://www.franckvogel.com |
Franck Vogel (born 1977 in Strasbourg, France) is a French photographer specializing in social & environmental issues, journalist, speaker and documentary film director. He lives and works in Paris. [1]
Vogel studied biochemistry at Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg, France, and at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, USA; and engineering at AgroParisTech, [2] attaining a master's degree in 2001
During 2002 he hitchhiked in Africa and Asia and took up photography in 2003. [1]
Vogel is known for his stories on environmental issues (The Bishnois: ecologists since the 15th century), [3] social (Albinos: Massacre in Tanzania), [4] [5] ethnological (Vlachs of the Balkans, the most discreet community in the Balkans) [6] and geopolitics (a long term project on some transboundary rivers [7] experiencing tension due to water access including the Nile, the Brahmaputra, the Colorado River, [8] the Jordan, [9] the Mekong, [10] the Ganges, [11] the Zambezi [12] and the Danube River [13] ). The New York Times talks about his "striking black-and-white portraits of albino people in Tanzania". [14] He was interviewed by BBC News [15] on his rivers' project while visiting Singapore for his exhibit at Gardens by the Bay, [16] and gave talks at Columbia University with the Earth Institute both on the Bishnois [17] and on the Transboundary rivers' project. [18] La Martinière, a French publishing house, released in Sept 2016 the 1st volume Fleuves Frontières (Transboundary Rivers: Will war for water happen?), [19] and in the meantime an exhibition on the Colorado River is presented in Paris at the Pavillon de l'eau. [20]
His work has been published in GEO magazine, Stern , Paris Match , NRC Weekblad , Animan, Le Monde diplomatique . He has had exhibitions in two Parisian Metro stations (Montparnasse and Luxembourg), [21] in Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur [22] in India, Photokina [23] in Germany, in Yangon in Burma, in Dali [24] in China, in Kazakhstan (Astana and Almaty), [25] in Turkey (Istanbul), [26] in Italy (Natural History Museum in Verona), [27] in Germany (Horizonte Zingst). [28]
Vogel wrote and co-directed a documentary film The Bishnois: India's eco-warriors (Rajasthan, l'âme d'un prophète) (52 min, France 5, 2011). [29] The film was awarded the Phoenix d'Or 2011 [30] [31] and the Terre Sauvage Award 2013. [32] Télérama magazine wrote of it, that "If everyone could watch this documentary, the Earth would be better off". [33] [34] In October 2013, he received the highest recognition by the Bishnoi community to spread the Bishnoi philosophy. [35]
He is member of the Société des explorateurs français (French Explorers’ Society) and an ambassador for Green Cross, Mikhaïl Gorbatchev's environmental NGO. [36]
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