Roger Hagan (b. 1934) has been a west coast photographer since his early teens. Trained in science and history, he earned his living as a writer and editor for journals and magazines, as a broadcasting corporation manager, as a filmmaker shooting documentaries, corporate films and television commercials, as a computer store owner, and as a partner in a multi-image production company. He has taught film and video production for the University of Washington Extension Division. He resides in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.

His photography in Mexico 1953 was a "Spotlight" feature in Black and White Magazine, issue of December 2006. In 2008 he had B&W print exhibitions in galleries in Guadalajara and Seattle, of the Mexican and Cold Stone series.

Mr. Hagan maintains a blog on the subject of photography and related matters, along with revealing the raw images of his early work with a Rolleiflex from the 1953 roadtrip through Mexico.

Some of Roger Hagan's 16mm documentaries are available as DVDs directly from him. (See the "Contact Us" tab.) Those listed at right date from the 1970s. In addition there were films on shoreline management in Puget Sound, on a great teacher of literature at the University of  Washington, global warming (in 1971!), nuclear physics, evangelism, genetics, water supply, urban design and other subjects. His last film was MONSTER CHEF about a high-cuisine restaurant, in 2002.

As the DVDs must be produced to order, the charge is $45 including shipping, regardless of length.

 

All books are printed to order and can be purchased only at Lulu.com/rogerhagan

Mexico 1953: The Nation as Seen by a Young American Photographer Half a Century Ago (black and white, 2005)  220 pages, 166 photographs. A nation beautiful, mysterious, and touching, waiting for the hopes of its revolution to be realized. $57.40 plus shipping.

Mexico 1953: The Road Trip (black and white, 2005)  170 pages, 332 photographs with extensive captions. Two young photographers set out in a 1948 Fraser car on an artistic adventure and found the beauty and historic depth they expected, and trust and generosity they did not. $46.40 plus shipping.

Personal West: Years and Eras (color, 2006)  102 pages, 99 photographs. "The west has always seemed to me to be about the contrast of years and eras. Years are human scale, eras geologic.... After sixty years here, I love this alarming beauty. I know we live in a dream."  $31.30 plus shipping.

In My Dream: Photographs 1948 - 2006  (color and black and white) 104 pages, 67 photographs.
Among this photographer's images, these are the most mysterious, mostly because memory does not persist like dreams. "I think we live in a dream of security, within a web our minds have spun." $31.30  plus shipping.

Cold Stone: Europe Ten Years After World War Two (black and white, 2007)  148 pages, 141 photographs. From 1955: "Everyone I saw had experienced the war, but had to pretend it was forgotten. It was a gray summer, tinged with unreality. Only the stones seemed real....People were acting at normalcy. It would take time. Still, I could not help looking for beauty."  $38.35 plus shipping.

Two Black and White Portfolios (2007)  76 pages, 67 photographs.  Maine Coast, 1960, and Sierra Nevada, 1948-1952.  $24.76 plus shipping.