Franck Vogel Explained

Franck Vogel
Birth Date:1977
Birth Place:Strasbourg, France
Occupation:Photojournalist specializing in social & environmental issues
Known For:Bishnoi, Transboundary Rivers
Url: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]

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.

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]

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://www.franckvogel.com/english/biography.html Franck Vogel Biography
  2. http://www.inbetweengallery.com/project/franck-vogel/ Biography – In)(between gallery
  3. Web site: Canon presents his work on the Bishnois . 10 June 2014 . 24 May 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140524004322/http://cpn.canon-europe.com/content/interviews/franck_vogel.do . dead .
  4. http://www.visuramagazine.com/franck-vogel-zeru-zeru Article on the albinos
  5. http://www.lifeforcemagazine.com/dec2013/index_18.htm Article on the albinos
  6. http://www.geo.fr/photos/reportages-geo/les-valaques-le-peuple-le-plus-discret-des-balkans Reportage on the Vlachs
  7. http://transboundary-rivers.com/ Transboundary Rivers project
  8. http://photo.geo.fr/colorado-un-fleuve-epuise-par-l-homme-14214 Story for GEO magazine on the Colorado River
  9. http://photo.geo.fr/l-apocalypse-du-fleuve-jourdain-15582 Story for GEO magazine on the Jordan River
  10. https://www.franckvogel.com/publications/GEO-Mekong-Franck-Vogel-Fev2017.pdf Story for GEO magazine on the Mekong River
  11. https://www.franckvogel.com/publications/GEO-Germany-Ganges-Franck-Vogel-Nov2019.pdf Story for GEO magazine on the Ganges River
  12. https://www.franckvogel.com/publications/GEO-Germany-Zambezi-Franck-Vogel-part1-Jan2019.pdf Story for GEO magazine on the Zambezi River
  13. https://www.franckvogel.com/publications/GEO-N500-Danube-Oct-2020.pdf Story for GEO magazine on the Danube River
  14. https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/30/arts/30iht-Lau.html Striking black-and-white portraits of albino people in Tanzania
  15. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8XHMEfU17s BBC News – Franck Vogel talks about his project Transboundary Rivers – April 19, 2016
  16. Web site: Transboundary River exhibition at Gardens by the Bay during Voilah! French Festival Singapore . 4 May 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160430101504/http://voilah.sg/vogel/ . 30 April 2016 . dead .
  17. http://maisonfrancaise.org/the-bishnois-ecologists-since-the-15th-century- Talk at Columbia University with the Earth Institute on the Bishnois
  18. http://maisonfrancaise.org/transboundary-rivers- Talk at Columbia University with the Earth Institute on Transboundary Rivers
  19. http://www.loeildelaphotographie.com/en/2016/10/11/article/159922500/franck-vogel-rivers-borders-the-water-war-will-it-happen/ Book on Transboundary Rivers by edition de La Martinière, 2016
  20. https://bonjourparis.com/photography/dont-miss-franck-vogels-photography-at-the-pavillon-de-leau/ Exhibition on the Colorado River in Paris at the Pavillon de l'Eau from May to Dec 2016
  21. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzvW20N9kVY Huge Bishnois exhibition at Luxembourg station – Parisian Metro in 2012
  22. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH7tyLgaAiI Bishnois exhibition – Jodhpur Fort in India – 2013
  23. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDkXNNNL8pM Bishnois exhibition – Photokina 2012
  24. Web site: Bishnois exhibition – DIPE 2015 (Dali International Photo Exhibition) in China . 16 February 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160314020129/http://www.dipephoto.com/portal.php?mod=view&aid=1765 . 14 March 2016 . dead .
  25. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF6rr9uDP68 Bishnois screening on skyscrapers in Astana, Kazakhstan
  26. https://www.nds.k12.tr/Exposition-Fleuves-Frontieres Exhibition on Transboundary Rivers in Istanbul Sept-Nov 2018
  27. https://scaviscaligeri.comune.verona.it/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=61120 Exhibition with EverydayClimateChange photographers at Natural History Museum in Verona Oct 2018-Jan 2019
  28. https://www.zingst.de/veranstaltungen/franck-vogel-transboundary-rivers Exhibition on Transboundary Rivers May-Oct 2021
  29. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C53XVyXHnkE Bishnois film trailer by France 5 TV channel
  30. http://planetbishnoi.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/phoenix-dor-du-film-nature-et-environnement-pour-les-bishnois/ Rajasthan l'âme d'un prophète was awarded the Phoenix d’Or 2011
  31. http://www.explorimages.fr/ Phoenix d'or Award
  32. Web site: "Rajasthan, l'âme d'un prophète" awarded the Prix Terre Sauvage 2013 . 10 June 2014 . 28 May 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140528195302/http://www.festival-objectif-aventure.com/ . dead .
  33. Web site: Article in French by Telerama on "Rajasthan, l'âme d'un prophète" . 10 June 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140508063018/http://www.franckvogel.com/newsletter/Telerama-Film-Bishnois.jpg . 8 May 2014 . dead .
  34. https://www.franckvogel.com/newsletter/LeMondeTV-Bishnoi.jpg Article on "Rajasthan, l'âme d'un prophète"
  35. http://planetbishnoi.wordpress.com/2013/11/05/remise-du-prix-bishnois-bishnoi-award-ceremony-india-oct-2013/?preview=true&preview_id=405&preview_nonce=3ca7c8b87a&post_format=standard Highest Bishnoi recognition awarded to Franck Vogel
  36. http://gcft.fr/WP/category/qui-sommes-nous/soutiens/ Green Cross France's ambassador list

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