Franck Vogel | |
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| Born | 1977 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]
