Mark Voce

Mark Voce is a photographer from Halifax, UK. He has had many solo and group exhibitions and has won several awards for his work, including Landscape Photographer of the year, Prix de la Photographie and APOY. As well as exhibited work he has also had his work publicized in magazines and newspapers, the publications have mainly been UK based but he has been recognised in Croatia and Poland as well with a couple of magazine publications.

Voce's style is to shoot black and white as well as using alternative processes such as platinum, cyanotype, salt printing and wet plate collodion to name but a few. I find Voce's work to be quite inspirational as it looks like he uses a similar method to my own work and creates a similar aesthetic to one I like to use myself, black and white long exposures to create ethereal timeless land and seascapes.

The long exposure gives the sense of timelessness, it creates an image we wouldn't be able to see without photography, and so the images get a sense of abstract and surrealism. It is this surreal aspect that I'am interested in for this project, creating a landscape that looks otherworldly, of sorts. Not so much that it looks supernatural or artificial, but so it looks different from what you would expect from a landscape snapshot. This long exposure aesthetic, however, is only effective on moving subjects, it works particularly well on cloudy skies and flowing water. It will be interesting to see how the aesthetic applies to stereograms and anaglyphs if I was to pursue that path.

Looking through the images it looks like the 3D effect would work really well with this fine art style, because of the nature of black and white photography, and because of the choice of subjects (the bridges, piers, ect) the photographs already focus on shape, form and depth, which hopefully will only be increased when turned into anaglyphs. To make anaglyphs requires splitting the colour layers of the image which does raise some concerns to the black and white images, hopefully it won't create any strange colour casts but there is only one way to find out, experiment. 

Mark Voce

Mark Voce

Mark Voce

Mark Voce

Mark Voce