Taj Forer is an American

United States

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 photographer. He is a co-founder of Daylight Magazine

Daylight magazine

Daylight Magazine is an English-language documentary photography magazine founded in 2003 by Taj Forer and Michael Itkoff and published by the Daylight Community Arts Foundation. Released bi-annually, each issue features a series of selected photographs related to the issue's theme with...

and its parent organization, Daylight Community Arts Foundation. His work is in private and public collections of art throughout the United States and Europe and has been featured in many solo and group exhibitions.

Born in New Jersey

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, Forer studied at Sarah Lawrence College

Sarah Lawrence College

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 and the University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina

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, Chapel Hill.
His first monograph, Threefold Sun, was published in 2007 by Edizioni Charta (Milan, Italy).

His work with Daylight Magazine has gained much international recognition and in 2008 received funding from the National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts

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. He has received fellowships for his photography from RSF Social Finance

RSF Social Finance

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and the Hohenberg Foundation, among others.