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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, ...
Further Information
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Artist Galleries:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Reviews:
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Collections:
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Commissions:
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Exhibitions for Mark Polege:
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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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