Franck Vogel
Born1977
Strasbourg, France
OccupationPhotojournalist specializing in social & environmental issues
Known forBishnoi, Transboundary Rivers
Websitehttps://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]

Life and work

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 an ambassador for Green Cross, Mikhaïl Gorbatchev's environmental NGO.[36]

References

  1. 1 2 Franck Vogel Biography, FranckVogel.com
  2. Biography – In)(between gallery
  3. "Canon presents his work on the Bishnois". Archived from the original on 24 May 2014. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
  4. Article on the albinos in Visura magazine
  5. Article on the albinos in Life Force Magazine
  6. Reportage on the Vlachs Archived 14 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine for GEO magazine (France)
  7. Transboundary Rivers project
  8. Story for GEO magazine on the Colorado River
  9. Story for GEO magazine on the Jordan River
  10. Story for GEO magazine on the Mekong River
  11. Story for GEO magazine on the Ganges River
  12. Story for GEO magazine on the Zambezi River
  13. Story for GEO magazine on the Danube River
  14. Striking black-and-white portraits of albino people in Tanzania according to The New York Times
  15. BBC News – Franck Vogel talks about his project Transboundary Rivers – April 19, 2016
  16. "Transboundary River exhibition at Gardens by the Bay during Voilah! French Festival Singapore". Archived from the original on 30 April 2016. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
  17. Talk at Columbia University with the Earth Institute on the Bishnois
  18. Talk at Columbia University with the Earth Institute on Transboundary Rivers
  19. Book on Transboundary Rivers by edition de La Martinière, 2016
  20. Exhibition on the Colorado River in Paris at the Pavillon de l'Eau from May to Dec 2016
  21. Huge Bishnois exhibition at Luxembourg station – Parisian Metro in 2012
  22. Bishnois exhibition – Jodhpur Fort in India – 2013
  23. Bishnois exhibition – Photokina 2012
  24. "Bishnois exhibition – DIPE 2015 (Dali International Photo Exhibition) in China". Archived from the original on 14 March 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  25. Bishnois screening on skyscrapers in Astana, Kazakhstan, Bishnois exhibition – French Embassy in Kazakhstan press release
  26. Exhibition on Transboundary Rivers in Istanbul Sept-Nov 2018
  27. Exhibition with EverydayClimateChange photographers at Natural History Museum in Verona Oct 2018-Jan 2019
  28. Exhibition on Transboundary Rivers May-Oct 2021
  29. Bishnois film trailer by France 5 TV channel
  30. Rajasthan l'âme d'un prophète was awarded the Phoenix d’Or 2011
  31. Phoenix d'or Award
  32. ""Rajasthan, l'âme d'un prophète" awarded the Prix Terre Sauvage 2013". Archived from the original on 28 May 2014. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
  33. "Article in French by Telerama on "Rajasthan, l'âme d'un prophète"". Archived from the original on 8 May 2014. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
  34. Article on "Rajasthan, l'âme d'un prophète" Archived 8 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine in Le Monde
  35. Highest Bishnoi recognition awarded to Franck Vogel
  36. Green Cross France's ambassador list on Green Cross official website
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