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Charles Grogg (born December 4, 1966) is an American artist and photographer.

Career
"Cracked: The Art of Charles Grogg" was published by 21st Editions. It is a bound portfolio of platinum/palladium photographs for which poet John Wood wrote poems to accompany Charles Grogg's images. John Wood had selected Charles Grogg's work for the Clarence John Laughlin Award in 2010, writing that "Charles Grogg’s photographs are hauntingly beautiful. And they are strange. But they are strange in a way that most “strange” photographs are not. There is no violence, no brutality, no shock, except the shock of authentic art, that shock that forces a viewer back again and again to look at them and keeps them as fresh on the one hundredth viewing as they were on the first." .

The portfolio resides in the Boston Athenæum, The National Gallery of Art Library, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, among other institutions.