The Art of Self-Taught Photographer Mark Essner
Mark Essner is a self-taught photographer based in Waterloo, Ontario. In his photographic practice, Essner combines a documentary eye with a unique sense of aesthetics, building images that both tell a story and celebrate the look and feel of their subjects.
I like how many of Mark’s photographs emphasize the human side of cities and industry. The artist is great at finding the beauty in spaces that would not normally be thought of as beautiful, a sense he shares with other photographers like Wayne Mazorow or Matt Emmett.
Mark's portfolio website, www.frommyeyetoyours.com
There’s an invitingly hazy, refracted quality of the lighting in many of Mark’s works. The artist seems to emphasize the way that artificial outdoor lighting bleeds into grey, dusky skies, using a blurred, lense-flare effect to create a sense of drama around each subject. I Look forward to seeing more of what Mark has been working on in recent years!
