Frank Hallam Day

Trained as a painter, Frank Hallam Day focuses his photographic work on the impact of humanity’s footprint on the natural world. He has explored culture and social history in his series on the impact of globalization on African culture, and the erasure of cultural, political and personal memory in the rebuilding of East Berlin in the 1990s. He has also examined the fraught relationship between man and nature, as in his series of the Florida jungle and earlier work on the manmade landscape along the eastern seaboard of the US. His multi-year work on Bangkok at night dealt with obsolescence, the passing of time, and the transient nature of progress as well as life itself.

Day won the 2012 Leica Oscar Barnack Prize and the 2006 Bader Prize and was a finalist for the 2007 Sondheim Prize. His work has been exhibited and collected by the Berlinische Gallerie und Landesmuseum Berlin, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Phillips Collection, the Orlando Museum of Art, the Portland Art Museum, the Kreeger Museum, the American University Museum, and the San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts, among others. It has also been selected for the Art in Embassies program for the American Embassies in Warsaw, Athens, Khartoum and Addis Ababa. Additionally, Day’s work has been shown in Singapore, Ukraine, and Thailand. A monograph of his photographs of night in Florida jungles was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2012 and was named a “photography book of the year” by Photo District News the following year. He has taught photography at Photoworks at Glen Echo Park, the Washington Center for Photography, and the Smithsonian Institution.