One artist I will be looking at for my project is Mark Power. Mark Power is an English photographer based in Brighton. He is a member of Magnum Photos and Professor of Photography in The Faculty of Arts and Architecture and is even a professor at the University of Brighton.
Power happened to be there on November 9th in 1989 when the Berlin Wall fell. For many years his work has been seen in numerous galleries and museums across the world, and is in several important collections, both public and private, including the Arts Council of England, the British Council, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Milwaukee Art Museum, and Marrakech Museum of Photography and Visual Art.
The reason I chose to look at Mark Powers is because he’s done a whole project based on home and family. I thought this project particularly resonates to my project about my mum and her sense of place because he took pictures of his daughter before she went to university in London and captured her emotions and how it affected everyone in the family. He did this because their family is so close-nit and his daughter was the first of his children to move away from home so obviously everyone is going to be upset. Powers mentioned that it’s hard when someone you’re close to moves away and I felt the same when my parents both moved to South America this year. Because of this I want to capture my mum’s emotions when she’s in Argentina as it will be a rollercoaster of emotions for everyone as it’s the first time in 2 years that she’s going to be there.
