Trevor Paglen

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Trevor Paglen (born in 1975 or 1976) is trained as a photographer and completing a PhD in geography at the University of California at Berkeley. He has recently taken a special interest in the patches or badges worn on the military uniforms of those working on black projects funded by the U.S. Department of Defense and documented in his book I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me, Melville House, 2007. Using the patches as an encrypted source of information, he seeks to reveal the significance of some of the little known projects and programs in the area[1].

Paglen has also documented the CIA's extraordinary rendition program in Torture Taxi (ISBN 1-933633-09-3), co-authored by A.C. Thomson and published in 2006.

His most striking contribution to geography has been his ability to provide evidence of the many secret sites operated by the U.S. Department of Defense in remote areas. His tactics are documented in a 2005 article by A.C. Thompson in the San Francisco Bay Guardian[2].

[edit] Art Career

Paglen has shown photography and other visual works at MassMoca, and Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art as well as The LAB in San Francisco and Bellweather Gallery in New York[3]. He was an Eyebeam Commissioned Artist in 2007 and has a Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.[4]

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Logos offer a guide to secret military programs, International Herald Tribune, April 2, 2008.
  2. ^ Spying on the government A UC Berkeley geographer maps the secret military bases of the American West – where billions of dollars disappear into creepy clandestine projects. Retrieved 2 April 2008.
  3. ^ Trevor Paglen show at Bellweather Gallery in 2006
  4. ^ Trevor Paglan's website