Harris Fogel, the American documentary and fine art photographer, will be in Warsaw November 16-25

Harris Fogel, Photo Credit: © Marie Kothera 2006

Harris Fogel, the American documentary and fine art photographer, will be in Warsaw November 16-25 to Chair the Jury of 2nd Biennial of Media Art Competition and open an exhibition of his works at the Academy of Fine Arts on November 19.

Fogel is an Associate Professor of Photography, Director of the Sol Mednick Gallery and Gallery 1401 and the former Chairman of the Media Arts Department at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He has an extensive background in digital imaging, criticism, photojournalism, and photo history. His work utilizes various formats, including digital cameras, scanners, 8"x10" view cameras, 35mm, medium format , and digital video, with an emphasis on fine art printing. Some of Fogel’s projects include photographs from the set of the TV series The Wonder Years; portraiture; a series on Howard Finster’s Paradise Gardens; the large-format color project A Few American Cultures; the nuclear-inspired Towards Trinity conceptual project; artists books; and digitally based work.

Fogel maintains a substantial exhibition and lecture record, and his work can be found in the collections of numerous museums, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; The National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.; the International Center of Photography in New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France; and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta; and his artist books are found in the library of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Fogel is well known as a consultant to institutions and industry who seek his expertise with digital imaging software and hardware. Fogel is the host and executive producer of Mac Edition Radio, a technology, photography, and digital imaging based internet radio show and website. From 1996 to 2006, he was cohost and executive producer of the Philadelphia talk radio show PC Talk-Mac Edition. His research on the relationship between photography and the American Presidency has led to interviews with President Jimmy Carter, President Gerald Ford, and First Lady Betty Ford, and many other White House officials from numerous administrations.

Fogel has directed the Sol Mednick Gallery since 1997 and he founded Gallery 1401 in 1999. The Sol Mednick Gallery was founded in 1978 by then-Department Chair Ray Metzker, and is named after the founder of The University of the Arts Photography Program, Sol Mednick. It is the only endowed gallery for the exhibition of contemporary photography in
Philadelphia.

The Media Arts Department, home to the photography, film, digital video, and
animation programs at The University of the Arts, operates the galleries. In 2001, the Sol Mednick Gallery received the prestigious Photo Review Award for service to photography. Fogel’s curatorial experience includes directing and organizing more than 200 exhibitions of photography over the past 20 years.

Recently, Fogel was chosen as the curator/juror for the Texas Photographic Society "TPS 15" National Competition, which drew almost 2,600 entries.