Mary Ellen Mark

Mary Ellen Mark has achieved worldwide visibility through her numerous books, exhibitions and editorial magazine work. She is a contributing photographer to The New Yorker and has published photo-essays and portraits in such publications as Life, New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair. For almost three decades, she has traveled extensively to make pictures that reflect a high degree of humanism. Today, she is recognized as one of our most respected and influential photographers. Her images of our world's diverse cultures have become landmarks in the field of documentary photography.

Her portrayals of Mother Teresa, Indian circuses, and brothels in Bombay were the product of many years of work in India. A photo essay on runaway children in Seattle became the basis of the academy award nominated film Streetwise, directed and photographed by her husband, Martin Bell.

Mary Ellen was presented with the following awards, grants and honours:

• Cornell Capa Award by the International Center of Photography
• Infinity Award for Journalism
• Erna & Victor Hasselblad Foundation Grant
• Walter Annenberg Grant for her book and exhibition project on America
• John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, the Matrix Award for outstanding woman in the field of film/photography
• Dr. Erich Salomon Award for outstanding merits in the field of journalistic photography
• Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degrees from her Alma Mater, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of the Arts
• Three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts
• Photographer of the Year Award from the Friends of Photography
• World Press Award for Outstanding Body of Work Throughout the Years
• Victor Hasselblad Cover Award
• Two Robert F. Kennedy Awards
• Creative Arts Award Citation for Photography at Brandeis University.

She has published 15 books and has exhibited her photographs worldwide.

For more information on Mary Ellen Mark visit her website.