Name of Artist: Mark Gray
Dates of Artist’s Life: 1981-present
1. Personal Background:
Mark Gray was born in Melbourne, Australia, but he has latvian and Irish heritage. He grew up working as a web designer. After a near death assault, he started to follow a new calling, photography. With his day job of web design, he started photographing the australian landscape, teaching himself everything. He is very religous, religion being a major motivator for his work. Over time he gained skill and prestige, today widely seen as Australia's leading landscape photographer.
2. Style:
He specializes in landscape/nature photography. He often chooses scenes with life and vibrant color. He does many different scenes including beaches, cities, lakes, mountains and many other scenes. He likes to take pictures of landscapes with some kind of contrasting thing in the middle of the picture, like a bridge or large object in the middle of a lake with a sunset background. His goal with photography is to bring the beauty of nature and a religious connection to everyone. He does this by capturing the most beautiful natural areas and selling them to the public.
3. Philosophy:
His goal is “to capture the breathtaking artwork of the master painter - so that all can see beyond any doubt that heaven exists". Or to capture nature and its beauty and bring to everyone. He does this by going to the most remote, untouched areas in the world and capturing them. Then he brings them home and sells them to everyone. He does this in order to show the inaccessible beautiful areas of nature to everyone and to convince them of the beauty of god's earth.
4. Influences: Because of the fact that the research project is the last thing we do, he has had no influence on my work other than the pictures I look for this project. Although, he has given me many ideas for how to make my work better in the future. Stuff like camera angles and what time of day to take photos at. He also showed me how to pick better scenes to take pictures of. And that you need to take pictures of scenes that speak to you not scenes that you choose.
Dates of Artist’s Life: 1981-present
1. Personal Background:
Mark Gray was born in Melbourne, Australia, but he has latvian and Irish heritage. He grew up working as a web designer. After a near death assault, he started to follow a new calling, photography. With his day job of web design, he started photographing the australian landscape, teaching himself everything. He is very religous, religion being a major motivator for his work. Over time he gained skill and prestige, today widely seen as Australia's leading landscape photographer.
2. Style:
He specializes in landscape/nature photography. He often chooses scenes with life and vibrant color. He does many different scenes including beaches, cities, lakes, mountains and many other scenes. He likes to take pictures of landscapes with some kind of contrasting thing in the middle of the picture, like a bridge or large object in the middle of a lake with a sunset background. His goal with photography is to bring the beauty of nature and a religious connection to everyone. He does this by capturing the most beautiful natural areas and selling them to the public.
3. Philosophy:
His goal is “to capture the breathtaking artwork of the master painter - so that all can see beyond any doubt that heaven exists". Or to capture nature and its beauty and bring to everyone. He does this by going to the most remote, untouched areas in the world and capturing them. Then he brings them home and sells them to everyone. He does this in order to show the inaccessible beautiful areas of nature to everyone and to convince them of the beauty of god's earth.
4. Influences: Because of the fact that the research project is the last thing we do, he has had no influence on my work other than the pictures I look for this project. Although, he has given me many ideas for how to make my work better in the future. Stuff like camera angles and what time of day to take photos at. He also showed me how to pick better scenes to take pictures of. And that you need to take pictures of scenes that speak to you not scenes that you choose.