About The Photographer MARK FIELDS
is a graduate of Philadelphia's prestigious The Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts. After years of studying piano and then after years of exhibiting as a painter, he returned to Fine Art Photography. His work is in collections as diverse as those of Christoph Eschenbach, director of The Philadelphia Orchestra and Chloe Dao, winner of the hit TV show "Project Runway". His art and photography has been exhibited in over 30 art Galleries and art institutions including the following.
Benjamin Mangel Gallery, The Print Center, Nexus Gallery, The Walt Whitman Center for the Arts, The University City Science Center Gallery, Villanova University, The Phila. Art Alliance, St. Joseph's University and West Chester University and The Fox Art Gallery at The University of Pennsylvania all in the Philadelphia area. Other exhibitions include one person shows in Galleries in North Carolina, New Jersey and in Germany. Recent events include winning the "Judges Awards" at the prestigious Phillips Mill National Juried photography show. In the same year his work was selected by Ray K. Metzker to be included in Philadelphias "The City Paper" show at Philadelphias Nexus Gallery. For three consecutive years his work has been included in the photography auction in NYC sponsored by "Friends Without Borders" held at Phillips De Pury. This event included works by many of the worlds photographic Luminaries. In addition to his work as a Fine Art Photographer, his skills are available as a digital photographic retoucher and his commercial images of Philadelphia are in numerous corporate environments including the Deloitte Corporation and Drexel University.
About the Photographs:
Classically trained and always concerned with maintaining the highest level of technical excellence, Mark Fields has successfully transitioned from "traditional" darkroom practices and now embraces the art of fine digital printing. Using state of the art pigment printers and the finest papers from Hahnemuhle and Innova, he creates photographs of a refinement that is self evident. His thoughts about using the digital process in photography are these: "Any camera or method to capture an image is only a device. It is the talent, intelligence and eye of the photographer that creates art, not the device. All photographic methods from Albumen, Platinum, Silver and Digital can create wonderful images and prints. These are processes only: the talent is in the photographer. Photographers can rejoice in the possibilities available today." More detailed information can be found in THE PRINTS using the Menu at left.