Picturing Maricopa Project

I recently found out that I was selected by the Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust as one of 15 photographers in the Phoenix area to participate in a community photography project called Picturing Maricopa.

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The Piper Trust has designed Picturing Maricopa to commission Valley professional photographers to photograph Maricopa County nonprofit organizations to “tell their stories” to clients, partners and potential donors where the goal is to capture the essence of each organization’s mission through images.

The project will take place over the summer and culminate in a public exhibit where a selection of prints, chosen by the selection advisory committee in conjunction with the photographer. After the exhibit, the prints will be given to the photographed organizations for display in their facilities.

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Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 News

1 Comment to Picturing Maricopa Project

  1. Hi Mark, that’s awesome. Shoot some animal shelters!… do you get to choose what you shoot?

  2. Sara on July 9th, 2009

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Mark Peterman explores narratives with photographs and multimedia. Although his work
is at home in the post-modern world it is very informed by history. A desire to be creative
on a daily basis fuels his curiosity about the human experience and he documents things in sketchbooks as a way of remembering his life.

Since he was young, he has been recreating the world around him through photographs and is continually refining his artistic vision by drawing on influences from music, literature and art. Mark's work reflects a graphic, story-telling quality with a cinematic feel, drawing on his design background while studying at the Kansas City Art Institute.

Mark enjoys photographing ordinary people who do interesting things. Although he is primarily a still photographer, he has recently started incorporating multi-media and motion into his work. Recent project themes include examining how ones memory is effected with the passage of time, exploring family histories on film and spending time in the meeting spaces of fraternal organizations.