{"id":42211,"date":"2026-04-28T11:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T09:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/?p=42211"},"modified":"2026-04-28T18:37:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T16:37:04","slug":"mark-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/mark-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Power"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark Power\u2019s complex, meticulously crafted images – usually made with large-format cameras<\/strong> – have established him as one of the leading figures in contemporary British photography.\u00a0While resisting simple categorization, his work moves between documentary, landscape and autobiography, exploring the unsettling terrain between imagination and reality.<\/p>\n

After graduating with a degree in Fine Art (Painting) in 1981, Power spent two years backpacking through Asia and Australasia. It was during these travels that he began to favour a camera over a brush, and by the time he returned to the UK at the end of 1983 his future was set. He then spent a decade working in editorial and charitable markets before being appointed Professor of Photography at the University of Brighton<\/strong>, a position he held for 25 years. Correspondingly, Power’s practice shifted towards long-term, self-initiated projects, alongside a series of major commissions in the industrial sector. He joined Magnum<\/strong> – arguably the world\u2019s most prestigious\u00a0photographer\u2019s collective – in 2002, and became a full member five years later.<\/p>\n

Mark Power’s work has been seen in numerous galleries and museums around the world and is to be found in several important collections, both public and private.\u00a0Yet, increasingly, he prefers the medium of photobooks, and so far he has published 16<\/strong>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mark Power\u2019s complex, meticulously crafted images – usually made with large-format cameras – have established him as one of the leading figures in contemporary British photography.\u00a0While resisting simple categorization, his work moves between documentary, landscape and autobiography, exploring the unsettling terrain between imagination and reality. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[607],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42211"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42507,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42211\/revisions\/42507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}