Mark Voce

http://markvoce.com

There wasn't much information available on Mark Voce's website that tells you about him. Here is what I did find out however...

Voce is a English fine art photographer from Halifax. His work has been exhibited several times, both as solo and group exhibitions. Voce has won several awards for his landscapes, including Landscape Photographer of the year several times as well as Prix de la Photographie and APOY awards. As well as having his work exhibited Voce has had it featured in several publications including magazines and newspapers such as; Digital Photography Magazine, Metro Newspaper, Black and White Photography Magazine, amongst a lot of others. His work can now be found on Getty Images and can be purchased through this company. The information given on Voce's website is more of a CV than telling you about his personal life, or how he came about photography.

As well working on his own work Voce also offers workshops and one to one sessions to teach people about landscape photography, whether shooting film or digital, or even gives lessons on a variety of different alternative printing methods. (M.Voce. http://markvoce.com/about/ [Accessed: 22/12/13])

Voce's style of photography results in images of simple subjects looking amazing and quite transformed. The use of long exposure gives the images a unique aesthetic that cant be captured twice. Form and shape play a big part in Voce's work, he makes use of leading lines in the environment to bring the viewers attention to his intended subject, and makes great use of the vignette to make the subject really stand out within the frame. It is quite a typical minimalist fine-art style. The long exposure results in quite a sleek smooth dreamlike finish to all his images, achievable through the use of ND filters. The vignette works really well in the images that don't offer a interesting scene surround the subject, he makes use of the dark edges and corners to block out boring scenes to balance the images, making it as appealing as possible to the subject. Alot of the images feature really dark skies, even black in some, which suggest gradient filters have been used to change the exposure of the skies and not of the subject.

When shooting architecture it seems Voce prefers to shoot in the evenings after the sun has gone down or is going down. When in cities this brings a new life and interest to the images not attainable in the day. Night time brings darkness, and in this darkness the buildings really stand out with their own lights and surrounding street lights, the darkness masks uninteresting details and really brings the subject out within the frame. It also makes other details stand out, other details that would otherwise be missed by the viewer and makes the shapes and shades much bolder. It gives the images their own illumination. 

Voce's architecture work in Venice...http://markvoce.com/portfolios/venice/

Voce's latest work...http://markvoce.com/portfolios/latest-work/