Mark Forbes

Surrealities

Around us every day there are details that go unnoticed as people make their way through their busy lives. As a documentary photographer, my aim is always to try and make the ordinary - extraordinary. To look for the personality and character in the every day life around us. Surrealities is the result of observing these unnoticed details and allowing the viewer to spend time enjoying the mundane. This is an ongoing series photographed using traditional film photography on a mixture of 35mm and medium format.

Photographer

Mark Forbes

Mark Forbes is best known for his considered and atmospheric photography of street scenes, urban landscapes and structures. He employs film as his medium of choice for personal work - using both traditional 35mm and medium format cameras.
Mark's approach to photography comes from an underlying fascination with people and their interaction with the environment. He has an uncanny knack of capturing the layers of beauty that exist everywhere around us. "I am an avid people watcher. When I'm out in the street, or even just day to day, I'm constantly seeing beautiful and interesting images and stories in my head.”
Mark has been a semi finalist in the Moran Prize and was recently the winner of Capture Magazine's "Australasian Top Emerging Photographer Award 2018" in the Travel category.

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