media production BTEC

Sunday, 7 December 2014

Photojournalism: Mary Ellen Mark

- Born in Philadelphia, 1940

- Started her career as a freelance photojournalist in the mid 1960s

- Her signature style involved combining a documentary approach with a fascination with the bizarre 

- One of the key themes in her work was children acting like adults

- Moved to New York in 1967 and published photo-stories in The New York Times and Life

- Worked on film sets, taking production stills


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