Jan Faul

Jan W. Faul, was born in Port Chester, NY in 1945 and is a photographer[1][2] who has developed and explored many styles professionally but is now specializing in panoramic landscape photography with a focus on American Civil War National Battlefields, World War II Military Airfields of East Anglia, and the environment in Scotland's Highlands and Western Isles.

As a photographer he has used a great variety of locations and styles throughout his career. His experiences have been as varied and his work has taken him from the hills of Appalachia to Europe and beyond.

Jan Faul was born to an American mother and a Czech father. By Jan's 18th birthday they had lived in the US and Europe. Upon their arrival in Switzerland, he was given a camera.

In college, Jan first started in engineering and later moved to study art history and printmaking. After a year or two, he began to combine other disciplines with photography, but by the time he graduated from George Washington University in 1969, he had remained self-taught.

Upon graduation, Jan worked at the Smithsonian and a year later he left to work for Senator Howard Baker who began his career in photography. Jan's first job was as Chief Photographer for the Office of Economic Opportunity. While at OEO he traveled across America portraying the poor. Following his year at OEO, he moved to the Appalachian Regional Commission for two years. Concurrently with the ARC assignments, he was on contract to Time magazine.

In the mid-1970s he was involved with working Americans as the Smithsonian sent him to study the locksmen on the St. Lawrence Seaway. In 1976, he worked for the Bicentennial Festival of American Folklife. In 1979, he moved to Denmark and there his work took him all over Scandinavia and Europe. During this period he traveled extensively while doing photography for advertising.

He returned to the US after a decade. In March 1993, he began a two-month residency at Yaddo and developed new styles.

In 1994-95 Jan was awarded a grant from the Graham Foundation to photograph disappearing family farms in Waukesha County Wisconsin. This project showed the urbanization of this mostly rural county in central Wisconsin and the project it funded meant that after 1995, he no longer took commercial assignments.

Thereafter he worked mostly on ‘scapes of New England, as well as California and the West. By1996, his landscapes had become panoramic more specifically.

In 1996, he began working on American Civil War battlefields stretching from Pennsylvania to New Mexico and continues to shoot these places today. In addition he is working on series' on Lake Vättern (Sweden), Ghost of the Atom Nevada Test Site neighboring Area 51, as well as RAF Bomber Command and The Mighty Eighth about USAAF World War II airfields in East Anglia, the Midlands, and Scotland.

In 2014, he launched the website worldwar2memories.com for the purpose of bringing our multitude of memories about WW2 forward, including the Air War Valor in the Skies in Europe, the Ground War D-Day in Europe, the Atomic Age, and Born During the War. "Born" includesf Americans like Bill Bradley, Fred Dalton Thompson, and Muhammad Ali, as photographed at his training camp in October, 1973.

Photography and design awards

One-man exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

Books

References

  1. ↑ The Photo review. Photo Review. 2000. p. 21.
  2. ↑ "Quilts are striking, but not cutting edge". Philadelphia Inquirer. 12 July 2002. Retrieved 13 April 2011. Maryland photographer Jan Faul tries to achieve a similar communication with the panoramic images he's showing in the Mednick Gallery at University of the ....

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