Photo Essay by Mark Chester

Mark Chester's photography is featured this month at the Dan Cutrona Photo Gallery

Mark Chester of Woods Hole is a superb photographer who still works in black and white.

Eyeglasses

Dogs In The Window

Public Bar, Australia

Man With Opera GlassesHe teaches at Cape Cod Community College and the Falmouth Art Guild, and is having a show featuring his work later this month in Falmouth.

While so many professional photographers have deserted this classic form, Mark's black ans white photography makes the viewer remember how much more art it takes to achieve that "WOW" factor without the blessings of color.

Like Ansel Adams and the classical lensmen before him, he forces himself to deserve our attention with only the photographer's eye rather than the color spectrum's.

Someone once said, "a photographer is someone who takes a photo of something no one has seen before."

Mark Chester abundantly satisfies that criteria.

The show at the Dan Cutrona Photo Gallery starts May 28 and runs through the end of June.  The galley is at 1 Locust Street, Falmouth, MA 02540, 978.502.9512

There will be an opening night reception on May 28 from 4:00p.m. to  8:00 p.m.

Mark Chester has been a professional photographer since 1972. He was Director of Photography and staff photographer at ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), in New York City.

Chester created, produced and photographed the book, No In America (Taylor, 1986), a collection of tongue-in-cheek photographs of no signs.

Previously, he photographed Charles Kuralt’s book, Dateline America (HBJ, 1979). His feature stories and photographs appear in newspapers and special interest publications.

Mark Chester's exhibits and bio

Chester’s photographs are in permanent museum collections, including Baltimore, Brooklyn, Corcoran, Denver, Portland (Maine), San Francisco and other institutions. His images have been exhibited nationwide in galleries, including OK Harris (NYC), Camera Obscura (CO), San Francisco Airport and in galleries in Japan, Vietnam, London and other venues.

A graduate of the University of Arizona, Chester is an adjunct instructor at Cape Cod Community College. He teaches photography at the Falmouth Artists Guild and the Cape Cod Art Association. His images are exhibited at the Copley Society of Art Gallery in Boston, Camera Obscura Gallery in Denver, Handworks Gallery and Coffee Obsession CafÈ, Woods Hole.

Photographs : Images are gelatin silver, printed and matted to museum archival standards. Sizes are
15 x 19 and 20 x 24 inches, framed.

Mark lives in Woods Hole. His mailing address is P.O. Box 545, Woods Hole, MA 02543. Telephone 508.299.8311 Facsimile 508.540.5119 E-mail mark@cape.com  and you can access his website here.