Franck Vogel

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] and the Zambezi River[12]). The New York Times talks about his "striking black-and-white portraits of albino people in Tanzania".[13] He was interviewed by BBC News[14] on his rivers' project while visiting Singapore for his exhibit at Gardens by the Bay,[15] and gave talks at Columbia University with the Earth Institute both on the Bishnois[16] and on the Transboundary rivers' project.[17] La Martinière, a French publishing house, released in Sept 2016 the 1st volume Fleuves Frontières (Transboundary Rivers: Will war for water happen?),[18] and in the meantime an exhibition on the Colorado River is presented in Paris at the Pavillon de l'eau.[19]

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),[20] in Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur[21] in India, Photokina[22] in Germany, in Yangon in Burma, in Dali[23] in China and in Kazakhstan (Astana and Almaty).[24]

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).[25] The film was awarded the Phoenix d'Or 2011[26][27] and the Terre Sauvage Award 2013.[28] Télérama magazine wrote of it that "If everyone could watch this documentary, the Earth would be better off".[29][30] In October 2013, he received the highest recognition by the Bishnoi community to spread the Bishnoi philosophy.[31]

He is an ambassador for Green Cross, Mikhaïl Gorbatchev's environmental NGO.[32]

• Official website
• In)(between Gallery in Paris represents his work