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Documentary Photographer Morgan Hagar was born in Goleta, California in 1975. After growing up outside Houston, Texas he returned to California to study at Brooks Institute of Photography while also holding a staff photographer position at the Santa Barbara News-Press. After being the first to graduate from the renowned Visual Journalism program at Brooks Institute, he took a Photo Editor position at the Ventura County Reporter.
Later, he left to pursue his dream of reporting on conflicts within humanity.
While accepting freelance assignments he has continued to work on personal projects that draw his interest. This work has taken him to various spots around the world; In Israel and Palestine he reported on the construction of the Wall surrounding the West Bank Territories, in Nicaragua he photographed a small shanty-town named Pantanal and vanishing cultures in Mexico. He recently returned from Thailand where he produced the photo essay, ‘Why Go Home,’ which takes a look at the ongoing refugee crisis along the border between Thailand and Myanmar/Burma. Within the United States he has focused on the mourning of New Yorkers one year after 9-11, civilian vigilantes along the California/Mexico Border, and currently, slow death brought on by poverty, drugs and homelessness on the mean streets of the downtown Los Angeles’ Skid Row.
The vision of Morgan Hagar is basic: he will bear witness to human events and share those stories with the world so that humanity can see itself for better or worse.
Morgan Hagar and his wife make their home inside a secluded compound deep in the jungle of Los Angeles, California.
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