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"Swamp Pink
Lily", Bellmaur, NJ - While in college, Michael Hogan began experimenting with with different films, such as high-speed recording and infrared. Hogan, who injured his wrist and had to have all of the bones fused together, eventually became interested in color photography and was influenced by his photography teacher, Jack Carnell, as well as by the photography of Eliot Porter, Richard Misrach, and Ansel Adams. Hogan continued his photography pursuit in Southern New Jersey Pinelands, an area has says, "reflects his love of ecology and nature." Because of this love, Michael has supported area groups that promote environmental protection, such as the NJ Nature Conservancy, the Camden County Environmental Commission, and the Old Pine Farm Land Trust. Hogan's large format, fine art photographs of the Pinelands and the Delaware river and bay are in many corporate, public, and private collections. With the support of grants from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Michael has completed 5 watershed photo-documentary projects in Camden and Gloucester Counties. He has taken over 6,000 slides of the watersheds and their flora and fauna, producing environmental slide presentations about these important resources. Hogan has also exhibited in the Cannon Building Rotunda and throughout Washington D.C., and his work has been used by many organizations for brochures, posters, annual reports, calendars, murals, and displays. |
