Mark Hartman: North

My friend and Montreal photo editor, Julien Beaupré Ste-Marie gave me the heads up about Mark Hartman’s terrific work, especially his series, North, created in Iceland. Mark received a residency in the North Fjords, in an isolated region called Hofsos, th

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Mark received a residency in the North Fjords, in an isolated region called Hofsos, that allowed him to carry his 4×5 and Hassleblad camera around the country for a month and intuitively explore the people and landscape. The experience was “like a meditation, a look inward as well as outward, an exploration of myself, my connection to my environment and my own artistic process”, and Mark came to realize that “as humans, we are the reflection of nature, it is us. Not to get to esoteric but earth, air, water, fire, either, we are all these things”