Trevor paglen biography
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Trevor paglen biography
Trevor Paglen
American artist, geographer, and author
Trevor Paglen (born 1974) is an American artist, geographer, and author whose work covers mass surveillance and data collection.[1][2]
In 2016, Paglen won the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize[3] and he has also won The Cultural Award from the German Society for Photography.[4] In 2017, he was a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.
Early life and education
Paglen earned a B.A. degree in religious studies in 1998 from the University of California at Berkeley, a M.F.A. degree in 2002 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Ph.D.
in Geography in 2008 from the University of California at Berkeley.[5]
While at UC Berkeley, Paglen lived in the Berkeley Student Cooperative, residing in Chateau, Fenwick, and Rochdale co-ops.[6]
Work
Sean O'Hagan, writing in The Guardian in 2015, said that Paglen, whose "ongoing grand project [is] the m