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Franck Vogel
Edit ProfilePhotojournalist specializing in social & environmental issues
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He lives and works in Paris. During 2002 he hitchhiked in Africa and Asia and took up photography in 2003. Vogel is known for his stories on environmental issues (The Bishnois: ecologists since the 15th century), social (Albinos: Massacre in Tanzania), ethnological (Vlachs of the Balkans, the most discreet community in the Balkans) and geopolitics (a long term project on some transboundary rivers experiencing tension due to water access including the Nile, the Brahmaputra and the Colorado River).
He also gave talks at Columbia University with the Earth Institute both on the Bishnois and on the Transboundary Rivers" project
His work has been published in GEO magazine, Stern, Paris Match, National Research Council Weekblad, Animan, Le Monde diplomatique. He has had exhibitions in two Parisian Metro stations (Montparnasse and Luxembourg), in Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur in India, Photokina in Germany, in Yangon in Burma, in Dali in China and in Kazakhstan (Astana and Almaty).
Vogel wrote and co-directed a documentary film The Bishnois: India"s eco-warriors (Rajasthan, l"âme d"un prophète) (52 minimum, France 5, 2011). Télérama magazine wrote of it that "If everyone could watch this documentary, the Earth would be better off".
In October 2013, he received the highest recognition by the Bishnoi community to spread the Bishnoi philosophy.
He is an ambassador for Green Cross, Mikhaïl Gorbatchev"s environmental non-governmental organization.
