Frank Hallam Day

Frank Hallam Day b. 1948, Washington, D.C., USA

Lives and works in Washington, D.C., USA Frank Hallam Day, a fine art photographer based in Washington DC, was the winner of the prestigious Leica Oscar Barnack Prize in 2012 and the Bader Prize in 2006, as well as numerous other awards, commissions and grants. His work has been widely 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 Corcoran Gallery and the San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts, among many others. He was invited to show work at Singapore Contemporary 2017, the Athens Photo Festival 2017, the Kreeger Museum also in 2017, in Ukraine in 2019, and was the subject of a large solo show at the Katzen Museum in 2019. A monograph of his photographs of night in Florida jungles was published by Kehrer Press in 2012, and was named a “photography book of the year” by Photo District News the following year. Much of his work is concerned with culture and social history, as in his series on the impact of globalization on African culture, and on the erasure of cultural, political and personal memory in the rebuilding of East Berlin in the 1990‘s. His work has also been concerned with the fraught relationship between man and nature, as in the Florida series and earlier work on the manmade landscape along the eastern seaboard of the U.S. 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.