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Lucas Foglia

Human Nature - Part 2
About Lucas Foglia

Lucas Foglia (b. 1983) was raised on a small family farm in New York and is currently based in San Francisco.

A graduate of Brown University and the Yale School of Art, Lucas’ photographs are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Pilara Foundation, the Berkeley Art Museum and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Fine Art.

His work has been published in Aperture Magazine, the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post Magazine, British Journal of Photography, Contact Sheet, Wired and PDN’s 30 among others. Human Nature, his third book of photography, was published by Nazraeli Press in 2017. He was shortlisted for the Prix Pictet in 2019.

Education
2010. Yale University, New Haven, CT. MFA in Photography
2005. Brown University, Providence, RI. BA in Art Semiotics
2002-06. Arnold Newman. Printed for Arnold Newman at his studio in New York City

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