photo-eye BLOG Laura Moya, May 31, 2012 Communal living has been a continuous presence in American cultural history, threading its way through the centuries starting with the Dutch Mennonites in Delaware in the 1600s, soon followed by the Shakers and shorter-lived groups such as the Amana Colonies, the Rappites, and the Oneida Community. Hippie communes [...]
The Independent in London Adam Jacques, June 10, 2012 What would living life “off the grid” – with no electricity or running water – be like? One man who can offer an insight is the American photographer Lucas Foglia. It was growing up on a small family farm in New York state that Foglia got [...]
The Guardian Sean O’Hagan, Friday 13 July 2012 Lucas Foglia: the photographer in search of off-the-grid Americans Raised by back-to-the-landers, he scoured the US in a camper van, seeking out people who have gone further than his parents. Lucas Foglia, who is 29 and looks 19, grew up on a farm on Long Island just [...]
Time LightBox, June 15, 2012 Joanna Lehan, International Center of Photography From urban beekeeping to artisanal pickling, there’s an uptick in America’s interest in doing it ourselves. Photographer Lucas Foglia has been in touch with this pre-consumer age mindset his entire life, having grown up on a small Long Island farm where, he says, his [...]
Hotshoe International, June 2012 Sophie Balhetchet How many of us have had dreams of leaving? Turning one’s back on the material world. Living in Nature. Growing food, fishing and hunting. Swimming in rivers. Cooking on campfires. Waking with the dawn and retiring with the sun? The Modern Age and its clamour held at bay by [...]
Exhibition images and videos of talks by MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient, community activist and urban farmer Will Allen and storyteller Doug Elliott are online here. Essay by curator Jo-Ann Conklin A Natural Order presents an intriguing and seductive view of life off-the-grid. For viewers of a certain age (such as myself), it rings with remembrances [...]
www.FlakPhoto.com A conversation with Daniel Shea, March 2011 Daniel Shea: So since talking to you last year, it sounds like you’ve been pretty busy. What have you been up to recently? Lucas Foglia: Since we last talked I made a final trip to the southeastern United States, and revisited many of the people who I [...]
Core Samples from the World, published by New Directions Press, features collaborations between poet Forrest Gander and photographers Raymond Meeks, Graciela Iturbide and Lucas Foglia. The book was just named a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award in Poetry. Below is a recording of Forrest Gander reading his poem, composed from conversations that Lucas [...]
Aperture Magazine Issue 200, Fall 2010 http://www.aperture.org/aperture-200.html#four The passages that follow were printed in the fall 2010 edition of Aperture magazine, excerpted from interviews conducted from 2006 to 2009. Kaleb (North Carolina): The more I thought about what was wrong with the structure of our society, the more I felt like our biggest problems came [...]