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Artist: Mark Powell |
| Exhibition: Dtroit |
| Date: December 11 2003 - January 31 2004 |
Curator: Trevor Schoonmaker
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Bio:
I'm continuously confronted with the idea what is worth taking a picture of and what stirs me enough to take it. I believe in mysterious personas, moments and shades of irony we all carry with us. I love to see someone not afraid to show the world a point of view through dress or attitude, and I like hearing stories from complete strangersthis is ultimately the reason I like to approach people. Personality and confrontation unite to make interesting portraits; to hear a good story and chase it out of them becomes collaboration between subject and photographer, a picture is taken and all these hues and tracers of what happen between us somehow comes through in the image. Living in Detroit offers an extreme emphasis on the individual because the crowd does not exist. The seam of the crowd, like moving ghosts, is still felt because of all the abandoned buildings and empty lots everywhere. I certainly rationalize something once was here, living and working in a functional city, yet what is felt are mysterious individuals within a city of imaginary space, improvisation, and light.
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