Bio:
Mark Harris is an exhibiting photographer from Metuchen, NJ. Mark has always been interested in photography as both a means of telling stories and as an art form. He has attended classes and several workshops at International Center for Photography, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, five summers at the Maine Media Workshops, recently at Santa Fe Workshops, and a workshop as part of the Palm Springs Photo Festival. Mark now works exclusively in digital which allows the ability to explore new areas including the use of color.
Artist Statement:
I have been interested in photographing dancers for some time and, in fact, was on the board of a local dance company. As part of that I did some photography for them, however, I began looking for ways of representing the movement within the art form. In the summer of 2022 I acquired flash units that had a stroboscopic mode and began experimenting with how I might use that. This resulted in photographs that showed the subjects’ motion without them being displayed as a single still or blurred. The six individual images in each photograph are made in camera with only level adjustments and cropping after.
