MARY ELLEN MARK workshop in Stockholm

72 years old Mary Ellen, still fabulous and passionate about life. She is a warmhearted, down to earth and have a vested interest in getting to know people. Through this workshop, she was a great inspiration for photographers who participated. Her advice through the workshop has really been importent for further photography projects.

“The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.” Mary Ellen Mark.

ABOUT MARY ELLEN MARK
Mary Ellen Mark's stark, black and white portraits have earned her a reputation as one of America's most incisive and gifted photographers. Her images manage to deftly capture the portrait sitter's dignity and vulnerability, a delicate task given the fact that her preferred subjects are often the homeless, the loveless, or the reasonless.

Born in 1940, Mark grew up in Philadelphia, and owned her first camera, a Kodak Brownie, as a youngster. She studied painting and art history at the University of Pennsylvania, but chose photography when she enrolled in graduate school at the Annenberg School of Communications, which was part of the University of Pennsylvania, because she found she did not like being confined to the studio.

Often, Mark's most gripping photographs show the exceedingly vulnerable—the underage—and her talent for capturing this is best exemplified by the series Streetwise. An assignment for Life magazine she did in 1983, Mark spent time with runaways and street kids in Seattle, Washington, and captured the desperate circumstances of their young lives with a heart-rending frankness. The photographs became the basis of a documentary film of the same name a year later, made by her husband Martin Bell, which was nominated for an Academy Award.
http://spwk.eu/Seminars-Lectures/Mary-Ellen-Mark-Artist-Lecture

Mary Ellen Marks` webpage:
http://www.maryellenmark.com/