who is Frank Hallam Day?

Frank Hallam Day was born in 1948, living and working in Washington DC, USA. He has been active as a fine art photographer for many years. He has taught photography at Photoworks, at the Washington Center for Photography, and at the Smithsonian Institution. His work has been shown in many international exhibitions and is found in numerous museums and private collections. His work is in numerous museums and private collections in the United States and abroad, including the State Museum of Berlin, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Portland Art Museum, the San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts and the Corcoran Gallery of Art.

what does he do?

Frank Hallam Day’s work focuses on people and nature, and the dysfunctional relationship between the two. Frank Hallam Day depicts the phenomenon of man and his environment in a unique manner, and makes RVs ultra-modern, high-tech and luxury homes on wheels the brightly lit and dazzling stars of his pictures. They seem to be inextricably entwined in the jungle landscapes of Florida at night, and appear as essential islands of security in a dark and hostile environment. They protect their owners with a feeling of safety and comfort in the lap of luxury. Of course, this no longer has much to do with the love of nature, relinquishing everyday luxuries or winding down.

Frank Hallam Day’s 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.

how will this inspire me and where will I go

The photos I’m going to take will be of buildings, boats, cars or anything that’s rusting, rotting, breaking or has graffiti on it as this is the theme that Frank Hallam Day was looking into. I will be going to run down places and the harbour as these places will have stuff decaying and rusting. I will be using these two photos as inspiration and what I will be trying to aim for.