The photographer: MARK FIELDS ( skip this and go to the image galleries at left if you wish).................
is a graduate of Philadelphia's prestigious The Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts. As a painter and photographer he has been concerned with using a refined and exacting technique as a way of achieving his imagery. Each body of work is categorized in the menu to the left. In addition to his own work, he is entrusted to bring to the public work from an important private collection which includes photographs by Jeffrey Silverthorne, Paul Strand and others. These can be found in the "A Private Collection" in the Menu. Photographs and paintings by Mark Fields are 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 Academic and commercial art Galleries. These include the following: 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. This may Mark gave an artists talk at Project Basho, one of Philadelphia's exciting new Photography venues. Recently his work was included in Philadelphias "The City Paper" show at Philadelphias Nexus Gallery. Mark Fields is now working on the release of his new book of photographs which will feature his Black and White studies of flowers and a selection of these Flower studies is now featured on the website Photography-Now. For three consecutive years his work has been included in the photography auction in NYC sponsored by "Friends Without Borders" held by Phillips De Pury, one of the worlds premier auction houses. 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 retoucher and he offers his masterful skills as a printer to other photographers. When he has time he visits photography exhibitions and comments on then on his Blog Mark Fields Photo Talk. This Blog can be accessed through the menu. His commercial photographs of Philadelphia are in numerous corporate collections including the Deloitte Corporation and Drexel University.
About the Photographs:
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 Epson, 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." Detailed information can be found in THE PRINTS using the Menu at left.