Jan Faul

Who is Jan Faul?

Jan W. Faul, was born in Port Chester, NY in 1945 and is a photographer who has developed and explored many styles professionally but is now specializing in panoramic landscape photography with a focus on American Civil War National Battlefields, World War II Military Airfields of East Anglia, and the environment in Scotland's Highlands and Western Isles.

As a photographer he has used a great variety of locations and styles throughout his career. His experiences have been as varied and his work has taken him from the hills of Appalachia to Europe and beyond.

Jan Faul was born to an American mother and a Czech father. By Jan's 18th birthday they had lived in the US and Europe. Upon their arrival in Switzerland, he was given a camera.

In college, Jan first started in engineering and later moved to study art history and printmaking. After a year or two, he began to combine other disciplines with photography, but by the time he graduated from George Washington University in 1969, he had remained self-taught.

Upon graduation, Jan worked at the Smithsonian and a year later he left to work for Senator Howard Baker who began his career in photography.