| 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.
Life and work
Vogel studied biochemistry at Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg, France, and at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, USA; and engineering at AgroParisTech, attaining a master's degree in 2001
During 2002 he hitchhiked in Africa and Asia and took up photography in 2003.
Vogel is known for his stories on environmental issues (The Bishnois: ecologists since the 15th century), social (Albinos: Massacre in Tanzania), ethnological (Vlachs of the Balkans, the most discreet community in the Balkans) and geopolitics (a long term project on some transboundary rivers experiencing tension due to water access including the Nile, the Brahmaputra, the Colorado River, the Jordan, the Mekong, the Ganges, the Zambezi and the Danube River). The New York Times talks about his "striking black-and-white portraits of albino people in Tanzania". He was interviewed by BBC News on his rivers' project while visiting Singapore for his exhibit at Gardens by the Bay, and gave talks at Columbia University with the Earth Institute both on the Bishnois and on the Transboundary rivers' project. La Martinière, a French publishing house, released in Sept 2016 the 1st volume Fleuves Frontières (Transboundary Rivers: Will war for water happen?), and in the meantime an exhibition on the Colorado River is presented in Paris at the Pavillon de l'eau.
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), in Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur in India, Photokina in Germany, in Yangon in Burma, in Dali in China, in Kazakhstan (Astana and Almaty), in Turkey (Istanbul), in Italy (Natural History Museum in Verona), in Germany (Horizonte Zingst).
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). The film was awarded the Phoenix d'Or 2011 and the Terre Sauvage Award 2013. Télérama magazine wrote of it, that "If everyone could watch this documentary, the Earth would be better off". In October 2013, he received the highest recognition by the Bishnoi community to spread the Bishnoi philosophy.
He is member of the Société des explorateurs français (French Explorers’ Society) and an ambassador for Green Cross, Mikhaïl Gorbatchev's environmental NGO.
References
- ^ Franck Vogel Biography, FranckVogel.com
- Biography – In)(between gallery
- "Canon presents his work on the Bishnois". Archived from the original on 24 May 2014. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
- Article on the albinos in Visura magazine
- Article on the albinos in Life Force Magazine
- Reportage on the Vlachs Archived 14 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine for GEO magazine (France)
- Transboundary Rivers project
- Story for GEO magazine on the Colorado River
- Story for GEO magazine on the Jordan River
- Story for GEO magazine on the Mekong River
- Story for GEO magazine on the Ganges River
- Story for GEO magazine on the Zambezi River
- Story for GEO magazine on the Danube River
- Striking black-and-white portraits of albino people in Tanzania according to The New York Times
- BBC News – Franck Vogel talks about his project Transboundary Rivers – April 19, 2016
- "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.
- Talk at Columbia University with the Earth Institute on the Bishnois
- Talk at Columbia University with the Earth Institute on Transboundary Rivers
- Book on Transboundary Rivers by edition de La Martinière, 2016
- Exhibition on the Colorado River in Paris at the Pavillon de l'Eau from May to Dec 2016
- Huge Bishnois exhibition at Luxembourg station – Parisian Metro in 2012
- Bishnois exhibition – Jodhpur Fort in India – 2013
- Bishnois exhibition – Photokina 2012
- "Bishnois exhibition – DIPE 2015 (Dali International Photo Exhibition) in China". Archived from the original on 14 March 2016. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
- Bishnois screening on skyscrapers in Astana, Kazakhstan, Bishnois exhibition – French Embassy in Kazakhstan press release
- Exhibition on Transboundary Rivers in Istanbul Sept-Nov 2018
- Exhibition with EverydayClimateChange photographers at Natural History Museum in Verona Oct 2018-Jan 2019
- Exhibition on Transboundary Rivers May-Oct 2021
- Bishnois film trailer by France 5 TV channel
- Rajasthan l'âme d'un prophète was awarded the Phoenix d’Or 2011
- Phoenix d'or Award
- ""Rajasthan, l'âme d'un prophète" awarded the Prix Terre Sauvage 2013". Archived from the original on 28 May 2014. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
- "Article in French by Telerama on "Rajasthan, l'âme d'un prophète"". Archived from the original on 8 May 2014. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
- Article on "Rajasthan, l'âme d'un prophète" Archived 8 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine in Le Monde
- Highest Bishnoi recognition awarded to Franck Vogel
- Green Cross France's ambassador list on Green Cross official website
