Working as a Freelance Photographer- Marc Wilson talk

Marc Wilson’s practice stemmed from a hobby he found whilst studying a degree in sociology. The experimentation in landscapes and memories progressed further from a hobby into a career where he has now gone on to produce multiple books ‘The Last Stand’ and ‘A Wounded Landscape’.

The project I found most interesting was the work of ‘A Wounded Landscape’ because of all the stories told through families affected by the Holocaust. Voice recordings by Wilson captures the true emotion which may have given a different affect to reading text in the book.

The images for the book were taken on a mixture of film and digital cameras. He travelled to many different countries in order to create the narrative of the story while interviewing and shooting to bring context into the stories told. For example, he went to a concentration camp where children were once held. An image there shows drawings on the walls by these children.

although it is very faint, you may be able to work out that it is a drawing of a ship in the sea.

Being in that space was emotional for Wilson and so he had to vacate the area where he came across some flowers that he quickly started taking photographs of. This as he mentions represented the children that had died.

Although Wilson’s practice is a totally different genre to what I am doing it still interests me to have an insight of other practitioners not necessarily even the images themselves but the way that they work and how this could be useful for myself.