Frank Hallam Day

Frank Hallam Day is one of DC’s pre-eminent fine-art photographers, with a career going back to his first solo show with Kathleen Ewing in 1992. He has since shown in many venues nationally and internationally, most recently at American University’s Katzen Museum late last year.

Day’s series on recreational vehicles (RVs) hidden in nighttime Florida jungles won the 2012 Leica Oscar Barnack Prize and was widely published and exhibited. His most recent series on nighttime interiors of phone booths in Bangkok has also been widely exhibited and published. Day usually works at night, but has also produced large bodies of work on the colonization of the idea of beauty in Africa and on the destruction of memory in East Berlin. Also a painter, Day was one of the first artists with a studio at Jackson School as it transitioned away from being Corcoran class space.

At his artist talk at Jackson Art Center at 2 pm on Sunday, March 29, Day will discuss his recent work and have copies of his books—Bangkok – Call Waiting (2017) and Nocturnal (2012)—available for sale. Both books were published by Kehrer Verlag, an independent publishing house in Germany and one of the world’s leading publishers of photo books. Sponsored by the Friends of Jackson Committee, the event is free and open to the public.