Mark’s date has been changed from April 21 to May 5.
Mark Power has published 11 books: The Shipping Forecast (1996), a poetic response to the esoteric language of daily maritime weather reports; Superstructure (2000), a documentation of the construction of London’s Millennium Dome; The Treasury Project (2002), about the restoration of a nineteenth-century historical monument: 26 Different Endings (2007), which depicts those landscapes unlucky enough to fall just off the edge of the London A-Z, a map which could be said to define the boundaries of the British capital; The Sound of Two Songs (2010), the culmination of his five year project set in contemporary Poland following her accession to the European Union; Mass (2013), an investigation into the power and wealth of the Polish Catholic church; Die Mauer ist Weg! (2014), about chance and choice when confronted, accidentally, with a major news event – in this case the fall of the Berlin Wall; Destroying the Laboratory for the Sake of the Experiment (2016), a collaboration with the poet Daniel Cockrill about pre-Brexit England; Icebreaker (2018), a magazine commission from 2002 which documents two ships operating in the Bay of Bothnia; Good Morning, America – Volume One (2018) and Volume Two (2019), part of a propsed set of five books published as work-in-progress, and spanning a decade of Power’s work in the United States.
In 2007 he tried his hand at curating. Theatres of War featured the work of five artists whose work is concerned with contemporary conflict and surveillance. It opened, appropriately, at Oskar Schindler’s former enamel factory as the keynote exhibition of Krakow Photomonth, Poland.
Mark Power joined Magnum Photos as a Nominee in 2002, and became a full Member in 2007. He lives in Brighton with his partner Jo, their children Chilli (b.1998) and Milligan (b.2002) and their dog Kodak.