Doug Fogelson’s work has been exhibited internationally in both galleries and museums and is held in public collections including The J. Paul Getty Center (Los Angeles), The Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago), the Center for Creative Photography (Tucson), and the Staatliche Museum für Fotografie (Berlin). He studied at Columbia College Chicago and graduated from The Art Institute of Chicago in the 1990’s.  

In addition to his visual work, he creates sound experiments and music with releases on the Love All Day label and various projects on his Bandcamp page.

Fogelson also founded and directed Front Forty Press, an independent art-focused publishing imprint. He has taught in the Photography Department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and currently serves on the Board of Filter Photo, where he co-founded the Filter Space Gallery. In 2023, he and his team launched One Year for Earth (1y4e), a nonprofit initiative dedicated to helping people “see through the lens of sustainability.”