ROGER FOLEY PHOTOGRAPHY

Roger Foley provides award-winning digital photography services for clients looking for garden landscape, outdoor living, or architecture images. Among his clients are landscape architects, garden designers, architects, book publishers, magazines, newspapers, advertising and corporate clients.

A photographer for more than thirty years, Foley earned a B.A. in Art from University of Notre Dame with a concentration in photography. He has won many photography awards for his editorial work and key industry awards for his clients including the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA); the Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD); the Landscape Contractors Association (LCA); the American Institute of Architects (AIA); Washingtonian Magazine; Spaces Magazine; Residential Architect Magazine. Over the last decade his editorial work has received top honors 14 times from the Garden Writers Association (GWA) for his books (2010, 2007, 1999); portfolios of editorial work (2009, 2007); magazine and newspaper stories published worldwide; and the Gold Award for Best Talent in Photography (2007).

In 2009, Foley’s first solo book, A Clearing in the Woods: Creating Contemporary Gardens, was published by The Monacelli Press/Random House. This coffee-table book presents 26 gardens by noted landscape architects and designers demonstrating the diversity of present-day landscape design. Projects cover an array of styles from minimalist to tropical and from pastoral estates to rooftop meadows, many of which are located against a backdrop of iconic landscapes. Each garden is identified by location and designer and is accompanied by a description of the garden’s design concept, site challenges, in-progress inspirations and planting and hardscape choices, based on extensive interviews with the designers. This April, GWA awarded best book photography in 2009 to A Clearing in the Woods.

Foley is also the sole photographer of nine more book projects ranging from Historic Virginia Gardens (2009) to Seascape Gardening (2007) and from A Man’s Turf: The Perfect Lawn (1999) to The Gardener’s Iris Book (1998). Washington’s Gardens at Mount Vernon: Landscape of the Inner Man (1999) won the Award of the Year from the Garden Writers Association. His work can also be seen in hundreds of books, among them, The Colors of Nature by Raymond Jungles (2008); Poolscaping (2003); The Essential Garden Book by Terrance Conran (1998) and in Jim Van Sweden’s Gardening with Water, Gardening with Nature and The Architecture of the Garden (2003.)

Foley’s commercial work is featured on hundreds of websites, in brochures, magazines and newspapers, including Cottage Living, Fine Gardening, Garden Design, Gardens Illustrated, Southern Accents, Smithsonian, Metropolitan Home, The New York Times, Landscape Architecture, Process Architecture, and The Washington Post. Clients interested in acquiring any of his images can contact Roger Foley Photography, which houses his library of more than 300,000 photographs and digital images.

Foley also conducts photography workshops and lectures for various groups, including the American Horticultural Society, the Garden Club of America and Chanticleer Gardens. This September, he will be leading an educational symposium on “Great Pictures Tell Your Story: Using Landscape Photography to Capture your Gardens” at the ASLA 2010 Annual Meeting & Expo in Washington, D.C.

In the winter of 2007-2008, Roger Foley's fine art prints of winter garden scenes were on view at the United States Botanic Garden in an exhibit entitled, 'Glorious Winter.’

He is a member of ASMP (American Society of Media Photographers), GWA (Garden Writers Association) and an affiliate member of ASLA  (American Society of Landscape Architects).