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Mary Ellen Mark
“Photograph the world as it is.”
Driven by a deep sense of humanism, American photographer Mary Ellen Mark (1940-2015) dedicated much of her remarkable five-decade career to capturing individuals on the fringes of society with unwavering honesty, acuity, and compassion. While celebrated for her storytelling, Mark always considered herself primarily a street photographer and possessed the same innate perceptivity as the genre’s most iconic figures. Before photographing her subjects, she would spend time with them, treating them with warmth, honesty, and respect, thus fostering a profound sense of intimacy in her work, and evoking empathy and connection in the viewer.
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