Lucas Foglia is an American fine art photographer, born in 1983 on Long Island, New York. His parents were part of the back-to-the-land movement, and he grew up on their small farm about thirty miles from Manhattan. He received his BA from Brown University in 2005 and his MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2010. He is based in Berkeley, California.
He makes stories about people in nature, combining documentary realism, intimate portraiture and staged scenes. His books include A Natural Order (2012), Frontcountry (2014) and Human Nature (2017), all with Nazraeli Press, and Summer After (Stanley/Barker, 2021), portraits made in New York in the first summer after September 11. In 2024 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
His work has been shown at Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the International Center of Photography and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
