My
creative practice is centred on photography, which
involves fine
art, commissioned
work.
I also teach photography,
digital imaging and colour management.
I’ve
designed books, stationery, logos and brochures;
worked on public and community arts projects;
exhibited my personal work; taught in Higher Education
and trained thousands of people in digital imaging;
and written technical and theoretical articles
on photography. I’ve
enjoyed it all.
Mark Wood BA (Hons),
MA
Apple Mentor Trainer (Aperture) EMEIA
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I studied Printmaking for both
my first and Master’s
Degrees. Both deepened my interested in the printed surface.
My first degree from Leeds Polytechnic led to work as a freelance
graphic designer, setting up my first studio; in a printmaking
museum. Whilst at the museum I began work as a college lecturer;
teaching desktop publishing. That was the early nineteen nineties
and a lot has changed since then.
By the turn of the millennium I was lecturing at Loughborough
University, teaching on the undergraduate programme in Graphic
Communication. Away from the University I continued my graphic
design practice, which increasingly involved training print
companies in design software and digital reprographics.
Beginning as a Loughborough based project, I developed a series
of digital photo-composite images into a body of work called
Constructed Spaces. Attracting great support and reviews, Constructed
Spaces was the catalyst for leaving Loughborough and a return
to private practice in 2003.
The next three years involved a mix of community arts projects
and documentary photography.
Photography has always been at the heart of my practice and
an unexpected eighteen months working on as a newspaper photographer
both deepened my technical knowledge and - more importantly
- extended my visual language, through the pressures of tight
deadlines of newspaper work.
My eclectic practice is a marketeers nightmare; fine-art,
graphic design, community arts, training and photography. This
web site seeks to distil my current practice into a simplified
message:
I am a photographer, who can teach what I practice, and practice
what I teach.
The constant interaction of commercial work, training and personal
practice means that I keep abreast of technological changes
and further my visual language. This also means that commissioned
work is carried out efficiently using best practice; that the
training I provide is underpinned by real-world knowledge.
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