With over 30 years of experience in the field, Mark is a highly collaborative teacher and colleague who blends photography, design, and building into artful projects and is adept at engaging individuals across diverse backgrounds to achieve individual and shared goals.

Mark began his photographic journey in the 70’s when his father built a darkroom in the family home after being inspired at the Maine Photographic Workshops in Rockport, Maine. His interest in the medium continued into college and after graduating found himself taking a summer workshop, and staying on for the fall intensive residency program at MPW. It was during this time, that he was schooled in the notion of perfecting the craft, understanding your vision and the history that shapes it.

He was accepted to be a summer Teaching Assistant, assisting master photographers and educators alike. He was lucky enough to assist John Sexton, George Tice, Maggie Steber, Sean Kernan, Jack Lueders-Booth, Larry Fink, Mary Ellen Mark, Keith Carter, Steve Bliss, Craig Stevens, and Jill Enfield. The conviction weekly that each teacher and group of students brought to the table was transformative for Mark and would inform his next move.

After that summer, The Maine Photographic Workshops (now Maine Media) hired Mark as their Technical Director, running all of the darkrooms, coordinating interns, supporting weekly specialized workshops, University of Maine classes and visiting artists, like assisting Phil Trager in printing his NY show. He was in charge of budgets, DEP compliance as well as running the commercial overnight lab (used for vision based classes) and coordinating the Workshops cataloguing and printing of its glass plate collection.

At this time Mark also led summer workshops in Black and White Crash course, Photo 1 and Photo 2. He additionally was an adjunct professor for the University of Maine (2-year degree program) where he taught craft, history, led weekly critiques as well as a personal vision and project class.

During these years in Maine and afterwords, Mark continued his own personal project work, documenting primarily the landscape that he inhabits and coexists in. Mark takes particular pleasure in making thoughtful, beautiful, and well-crafted images out of the most mundane or overlooked notions in traditional landscape work. He has taken part in numerous group and solo shows and is held in private collections. Mark currently lives in Pelham, NY with his wife and daughters.

Exhibits

1991- Maine Photographic Workshops, Resident Thesis Show. ( Group )

1992-Maine Photographic Workshops, Faculty Show ( Group )

1993- Maine Photographic Workshops, Faculty Show ( Group )

1994- New England Photographers, Danforth Musuem of Art ( Group )

1994- Cambridge Artsit's Coop ( Group )

1995- Ithaca College, Momentary Glimpses ( Solo Show )

1995- Maine Photographic Workshops ( Solo show and Lecture )

1995- University California Berkeley ( Solo Show )

1996- Freeport Museum of Art, Freeport, Ill ( Solo Show )

Collections

US State Department

Maine Photographic Workshops

Danforth Museum of Art

Private Collectors

Photo below courtesy of Nathan Drezner.