Photographer Morgan Hagar was born in Goleta, California in 1975 and grew up outside Houston, Texas. He returned to California to study at Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara and was the first to graduate from the renowned Visual Journalism program. While in school he held a staff photographer position at the Santa Barbara News-Press and shortly after graduating became Photo Editor at the Ventura County Reporter. In 2004 he moved to Los Angeles to pursue his dream of reporting on conflicts within humanity.
Much of his work consists of personal projects. He has documented issues in Israel, Thailand, Nicaragua, Mexico, and across the United States. His self-funded projects have garnered praise internationally and have been featured in various print and online publications. In 2006, he was selected to be part of World Picture News 2006 Best Images of the Year. In 2007, he won first place in the Photojournalism-Other category from Prix de Photographie Paris.
I like his work because even tho he is documenting serious conflict areas and life struggles he somehow makes them look beautiful by taking the shot in an artistic manor as demonstrated in these pictures i have chosen from his series titled "The Wall"
The pictures i have chosen are in full colour which itself is quite unusual for documentary photographers, I also think these images capture the separation and segregation caused by the wall in an artistic way.
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