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Mark Power

Mark Power: The Patient Geometry of the World by Jerome D. Introduction Mark Power (b. 1959, Harpenden, England) is one of the most technically rigorous and conceptually ambitious photographers in Britain today — a full member of Magnum Photos since 2007 , a former Professor of Photography at the University of Brighton, and a photographer whose entire practice is built around the idea that a great photograph requires extraordinary patience, preparation, and precision. His path to photography was indirect. He studied Fine Art at Brighton Polytechnic (1978–1981), intending to become a painter, before travelling extensively through Southeast Asia and Australia, where he discovered that he enjoyed using a camera more than a pencil. He returned to England in 1983 and began working as a freelance photographer for publications and charities, joining the prestigious Network Photographers agency in 1988. It was chance that produced his first major body of work: he happened to be in...