Gritty Industrial Imagery: Photography by Mark Essner
Mark Essner, today’s featured artist, is a photographer from Waterloo, Ontario. Mark’s gritty industrial imagery sometimes even harkens to urban exploration practices.
Mark's website, www.frommyeyetoyours.com
The photographer makes heavy use of shadow and contrast. I really love the way his images are so unrelentingly sharp, with the texture of every pictured object coming to the forefront. His choice of subject matter often favours planks of wood and steel, train tracks and run down or rusted vehicles.
In Mark’s Potential series, he highlights moments where something perhaps incongruous has happened – a tree growing out of a run-down rooftop, for example, or a stop sign with an inspiring sticker placed on it. Each image is meant to represent a moment of further potential encountered in the everyday. This gallery also features a number of night-shots, highlighting the artist’s propensity for using shadow and contrast to the extreme.
