Mark Power
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Mark Power (born 1959) is an English photographer. He studied illustration at Brighton Polytechnic, where he specialized in painting and soon after he traveled extensively, discovering a love for photography along his travels. Upon his return, he worked as a freelance for several UK publications and charities.
Between 1992 and 1996, Power embarked on The Shipping Forecast - a project that involved travelling to & photographing all 31 areas covered by the Shipping Forecast broadcast on BBC Radio 4. This project was published as a book and was a touring exhibition across the UK and France. He used a VW Campervan as his mode of transport for the project, echoing the late Tony Ray Jones whose work has similarities in style and meaning to Powers.
Between 1997 and 2000, he was comissioned to document the construction of the Millennium Dome in London, a project that resulted in another touring exhibition and the accompanying book, Superstructure. Around this time his technical methods changed and he began to use color film and a large format camera.
In 2005, Power undertook another personal project, using the London A-Z map as inspiration. The work, entitled A System of Edges, is a collection of images examining the areas on the outer boundaries of the map. The project was exhibited at the Centre of Visual Art, in Brighton University, where he is a Senior Lecturer in Editorial Photography.
Power became a nominee of Magnum Photos in 2002 and an associate in 2005 and has been a member of Network Photographers since 1988.
