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Background-
  • Mother and father were from an art background
  • Marcus became artistic as he grew up and was the winner of the young painting competition of the olympics at the age of 10 years old.
  • For his A-levels he studied art
Photography journey-
  • In the beginning of his career he only had one camera and one lens
  • He began photographing sports (American football) - taking on a documentary photographer feel
  • At the beginning of his career he was still quite young (18 years) and still had a lot to learn when working with individuals he did not know.
  • He learned that in order to het a good image with real meaning, you had to have confidence to ask someone if you can take their picture and if it doesn't quite work, being able to take some more until you get the right one. This was a progression point.
  • He later decided that he didn't want to be a documentary photographer anymore.
  • Began using orthochromatic film- giving a shadow type feel to his images
  • Some of his images that he has created have been used for book covers
  • Throughout his early career he decided to apply for funding from the arts council for a project that he had decided upon, which would allow him to travel as well. He was successful, but was only awarded £400; this was a lot less than he was expecting.
  • He applies for everything; exhibitions, competitions etc.
  • He began doing some symmetry photography work; creating individual images that when put together create a larger image.
  • He was having issues with using once living animals and so decided that it would be a lot easier to use stuffed animals- in order to do this he got in touch with a museum 
  • Has done book binding
  • Has created cards, using objects e.g. laves, and a scalpel to cut shapes, and change the colours using dyes
  • Important to have lots of visual things around you; things that can help generate ideas.
A change in direction-
  • Contacted a football club and offered to be their photographer for free, but this was beneficial to him because he was able to travel at the same time.
  • His career really took off when his work was being displayed in the photographers gallery; where his work was being sold and he was finally making an income.
  • He carried out a project on people walking, but was struggling to get the right aesthetic, so collaborated with a friend of his, shooting in different locations; again being used for book covers- being sold anywhere between £200-£400 for a well known company and third party companies would usually buy it for less.
  • If you want to have your images used for things such as book covers then it's important not to be too attached to your work as the cover agent may make changes to your image in order to make it more suitable.
  • He has also used acetate within his work, using shapes to create images.
  • He began designing games, small cards with different train track pieces that could be put together to create a circuit.
  • This then inspired him to use previous projects when creating his games.
  • Was inspired by John Hunt studios
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