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Lucas Foglia: An Emerging Photographer to Watch
Photo District News (PDN) is the leading photo magazine for professional photographers. Each year they select 30 new and emerging photographers to keep an eye on. Over the next two weeks we will be featuring three of these photographers on our homepage. These rising stars will also be presenting their work at Rochester Institute of Technology - here in Rochester, NY - on October 1 - Check it out!
Without further ado, we would like to present photos by Lucas Foglia from his Re-Wilding collection.
"I hope they reveal something about the complexity of the subjects' relationship with nature and the psychology of that desire for independence" Lucas Foglia
© Lucas Foglia
Homeschooling, Tennessee 2008
© Lucas Foglia
Rita & Cora Aiming, Tennessee 2007
© Lucas Foglia
Acorn with Possum Stew, Wildroots Homestead, North Carolina 2006
© Lucas Foglia
Natalie Making a Bow-Drill Friction Fire, Wildroots Homestead, North Carolina 2007
© Lucas Foglia
Conrad and Ruth, Tennessee 2007
About Lucas
I grew up with my extended family on a farm in suburban Long Island. Influenced by the back-to-the-land movement of the 1960's, my parents maintained an agricultural lifestyle as malls and supermarkets developed around us. We heated with wood, grew and canned our food and bartered plants for everything from shoes to dentistry. At the same time, we remained connected to the electrical grid and, when I left for college, my immediate family owned four cars, five computers and one nonworking television.
Since 2006 I have visited, befriended, photographed and interviewed a network of people in Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina and Georgia who have responded to environmental concerns by moving to rural areas and adopting wilderness or homesteading lifestyles. My subjects vary in their religious beliefs and cultural practices but they all share a desire for self-sufficiency. Most of my subjects live off-the-grid, build their homes from local materials, obtain their water from nearby springs and hunt, gather or grow their own food. I am fascinated by the points of intersection between their ideals, the ubiquitous availability of the mainstream world and the hard work necessary to maintain an alternative lifestyle.
Visit Lucas's web site:
http://www.LucasFoglia.com
Without further ado, we would like to present photos by Lucas Foglia from his Re-Wilding collection.
"I hope they reveal something about the complexity of the subjects' relationship with nature and the psychology of that desire for independence" Lucas Foglia
© Lucas Foglia
Homeschooling, Tennessee 2008
© Lucas Foglia
Rita & Cora Aiming, Tennessee 2007
© Lucas Foglia
Acorn with Possum Stew, Wildroots Homestead, North Carolina 2006
© Lucas Foglia
Natalie Making a Bow-Drill Friction Fire, Wildroots Homestead, North Carolina 2007
© Lucas Foglia
Conrad and Ruth, Tennessee 2007
About Lucas
I grew up with my extended family on a farm in suburban Long Island. Influenced by the back-to-the-land movement of the 1960's, my parents maintained an agricultural lifestyle as malls and supermarkets developed around us. We heated with wood, grew and canned our food and bartered plants for everything from shoes to dentistry. At the same time, we remained connected to the electrical grid and, when I left for college, my immediate family owned four cars, five computers and one nonworking television.
Since 2006 I have visited, befriended, photographed and interviewed a network of people in Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina and Georgia who have responded to environmental concerns by moving to rural areas and adopting wilderness or homesteading lifestyles. My subjects vary in their religious beliefs and cultural practices but they all share a desire for self-sufficiency. Most of my subjects live off-the-grid, build their homes from local materials, obtain their water from nearby springs and hunt, gather or grow their own food. I am fascinated by the points of intersection between their ideals, the ubiquitous availability of the mainstream world and the hard work necessary to maintain an alternative lifestyle.
Visit Lucas's web site:
http://www.LucasFoglia.com
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