Trevor paglen biography of christopher

American artist, geographer, and author

Trevor Paglen (born ) is an American artist, geographer, and author whose work covers mass surveillance and data collection.^[1][2]

In , 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 , he was a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.

Early life and education

Paglen earned a B.A. degree in religious studies in from the University of California at Berkeley, a M.F.A. degree in from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Ph.D.

in Geography in 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 , said that Paglen, whose "ongoing grand project [is] the murky world of global state surv