Lucas Foglia: Homeschooling Chalkboard, Tennessee 2008 © Lucas Foglia
Lucas Foglia
A Natural Order
18 January – 8 March 2013
at Belfast Exposed, Belfast
“I grew up with my extended family on a small farm in the suburbs of New York City. While malls and supermarkets developed around us, we heated our house with wood, farmed and canned our food, and bartered the plants we grew for everything from shoes to dental work. But while my family followed many of the principles of the back-to-the-land movement, by the time I was eighteen we owned three tractors, four cars, and five computers. This mixture of the modern world in our otherwise rustic life made me curious to see what a completely self-sufficient way of living might look like.
From 2006 through 2010, I travelled throughout the south eastern United States befriending, photographing, and interviewing a network of people who left cities and suburbs to live off the grid. Motivated by environmental concerns, religious beliefs, or predictions of economic collapse, they build their homes from local materials, obtain their water from nearby springs, and hunt, gather, or grow their own food. [read the full text here]
Belfast Exposed
The Exchange Place,
23 Donegall Street,
Belfast, BT1 2FF
Northern Irland
Opening hours
Tuesday – Saturday: 11h00 – 17h00
Lucas Foglia: Desk, Sassafras Community, Tennessee 2009 © Lucas Foglia
Lucas Foglia: Jasmine, Hannah and Cecilia Swimming, Tennessee 2008 © Lucas Foglia