Mary Ellen Mark is an American photographer who was born in 1940 and is best known for her photojournalism, portraiture, and advertising photography. She has had 16 collections of her work published and has been exhibited at galleries and museums worldwide. She has received numerous accolades including three Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards and three fellowships from the National Endowments for the Arts. She has become my inspiration to photography because through her photos I can learn so much. Even though her photography is very different then mine in subject matter and sometimes message, I truly connected with a lot of her photos in a personal way. She works primarily in black and white, which is so much more powerful then digital photos. Being the great photographer that she is, she really inspired me to take pictures of things that matter in life. Mary Ellen Mark once said, “Photograph the world as it is. Nothing is more interesting than reality.
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