Artist Information:
Mark Polege
St. Louis, MO
United States
Member Since: Feb 2001
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Artist Statement:
My interest in Photography
began 15 years ago shortly
after entering high school. I
was fortunate enough to visit
many areas of the country
since that time. For the next
13 years my interest in 35mm
Photography mainly focused on
tourist-type photos. However,
when I moved to North Dakota
to be near my family, my
interest in it took a very
unexpected turn.
Having previously lived in
downtown St.Louis, Missouri
and then relocating to the
farm country of North Dakota,
a degree of culture shock was
inevitable. What surprised me
so much about this area was
how many of the old farms
there were that lie abandoned,
untouched by human hands for
some 20 to 30 years. Coming
from a land where change was a
constant forward motion of
destroy and rebuild, the
concept of something simply
withering away was quite new
to me. Walking through many
of these places I felt a
strong sense of what it must
have been like when these
farms were in their prime.
Having never really been on
farms much as a child, all
this was foreign territory to
me. Remnants of a time long
past where if each object,
each building, ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
My first public appears of a
collection of my work will be
at the Governor French Academy
from Nov. 16 thru the
Christmas season in downtown
Belleville, IL....
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Mark Polege's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Mark Polege's Portfolio.
My interest in Photography began 15 years ago shortly after entering high school. I was fortunate enough to visit many areas of the country since that time. For the next 13 years my interest in 35mm Photography mainly focused on tourist-type photos. However, when I moved to North Dakota to be near my family, my interest in it took a very unexpected turn.
Having previously lived in downtown St.Louis, Missouri and then relocating to the farm country of North Dakota, a degree of culture shock was inevitable. What surprised me so much about this area was how many of the old farms there were that lie abandoned, untouched by human hands for some 20 to 30 years. Coming from a land where change was a constant forward motion of destroy and rebuild, the concept of something simply withering away was quite new to me. Walking through many of these places I felt a strong sense of what it must have been like when these farms were in their prime. Having never really been on farms much as a child, all this was foreign territory to me. Remnants of a time long past where if each object, each building, ... |
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