Lucas Foglia (b.1983)

Lucas Foglia (b.1983)

DAVID IN HIS WIGWAM, KEVIN'S LAND, VIRGINIA, FROM A NATURAL ORDER, 2010. Digital c-print, image size 49 x 65.5cm, sheet size 60 x 76.5cm, edition 4/5. Archivally mounted and framed, frame size 64 x 80.5cm, with signed artist's label affixed to frame verso.

Lucas Foglia's series A Natural Order (2006-2010), is comprised of portraits Foglia made of Americans who have chosen to live "off-grid." He writes of the series, "From 2006 through 2010, I traveled throughout the southeastern United States befriending, photographing, and interviewing a network of people who left cities and suburbs to live off the grid. Motivated by environmental concerns, religious beliefs, or the global economic recession, they chose to build their homes from local materials, obtain their water from nearby springs, and hunt, gather, or grow their own food. All the people in my photographs aspire to be self-sufficient, but no one I found lives in complete isolation from the mainstream. Many have websites that they update using laptop computers, and cell phones that they charge on car batteries or solar panels. They do not wholly reject the modern world. Instead, they step away from it and choose the parts that they want to bring with them."

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Michael Hoppen Gallery, London