About Mark
I’ve been using cameras for over 35 years. From pretending at 10 years old to my video production company in the early 80’s. I earned my degree in visual communications in 1980 after studying engineering at UW Wisconsin, and dabbled between still work and video throughout the late 80’s. I managed a portrait studio, produced videos for the training department at Gimbel’s Midwest and produced corporate communication programs for my company Video Masters. In 1988 I purchased a struggling photographic distribution business and brought it out of debt to a successful company today. I have well over 10,000 images created on FILM. Most of my hobby started on black & white TRI-X or Plus-X film, which I developed in my parent’s basement. I shot everything at first on either negative film or slide film. I went everywhere to capture a set of images that were mine. I knew at the moment that 100’s if not 1000’s of people were in this space at one time in history and that I was witnessing and recording what I truly loved to see at that moment in time.
I photograph a great deal of rural farms and barns. I enjoyed the way the predominantly red paint goes through changes. Decaying wood changes it’s texture from the 100 plus years of constant beating weather. The fierce weather in the Midwest changes so drastically from summer to winter. They are brutal on wood framed barns, silos and buildings. I’ve come to calling my work rural architecture due to how much I love the composition of any building. I find wonderful composition in a man made structure of any kind. My images are witness to the blood and sweat it took to create these rural structures, not with standing, the burden of running a dairy farm or growing crops.
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