Mark Tamer
For nothing can be sole or whole
That has not been rent.
W.B. Yeats, Crazy Jane Talks With the Bishop
Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past
is real.
Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
Look out honey, cause I'm using technology!
Ain't got time to make no apology
Solar radiation in the dead of night
Love in the middle of a fire fight
Iggy and the Stooges, Search and Destroy
I am an experimental photographer working with both
analogue and digital mediums. Through my work I’m looking
to find a balance between chance and control, and
between; construction and destruction, signal and noise
and ultimately, life and death. I embrace the accidents
and errors as they not only remind us how vulnerable and
delicate we are, they can often show us something new. It
is at the point of breakdown that the medium begins to
reveal itself. Through glitches and mistakes we get to
see the base elements, the very construction of the
material that creates those illusions of reality, the
apparatus of photography itself.
Education
MA Photography, London College of Communication 2016-17
BA (Hons) Film, Video and Animation, London College of Printing, 1990 - 1993
Awards
Muse Gallery Residency 2017
National Disability Arts Collection and Archive Research and Development Award 2017
Book
Dis-location
Talks
Mark Tamer in Conversation with IMA: Are there too many images in the world?
Recent Exhibitions
2019
This is It - Muse Gallery, London - solo show
Shape Arts Annual Open - Bow Arts
2018
The London Ultra @ The Bargehouse Oxo Tower, London
Muse Gallery Artist in Residence - 15 Year Show
Muse Gallery Artist in Residence - Final Show
Fringe Arts Bath Festival - live
Muse Gallery Artist in Residence - Final Show
2017
Final Show MA Photography - LCC, Elephant and Castle
Making It Real, - Ugly Duck, London
AIR Competition Finalist - Muse Gallery, Portobello Road
Revolv Collective: Archives as Medium, live creation of zine - Four Corners Gallery
Interim Show, LCC, Elephant and Castle
2016
CTRL, Spitalfields Studios, Whitechapel
2015
Déjà Vu, BAR Gallery, Willesden
Opposite Fields, Willesden Library Gallery
2014
Queens Park Photo Festival - Around A Mile
[In]Visible - Shape Gallery, Westfield, Stratford, London
ART-ITECTURE, BAR Gallery, Willesden
2013
London Independent Photographers Annual Exhibition - Strand Gallery
Open Studio - Kensal Rise, London
Creative Future's Tight Modern - Olympic Park, London
Imapct Art Fair, Brixton
Explorations - Electric House, Willesden , London
Sample 13: a celebration of the best photography from 2012, at theprintspace gallery, Kingsland Road, London
Cork Street Open Winter Exhibition - The Gallery, Cork Street, London W1
2012
Christmas Exhibition - Artisan Gallery
Glimpse - Espacio Gallery, Bethnal Green
London Independent Photographers Annual Exhibition - Strand Gallery
Queens Park Photographers Annual Show - Willesden Green Library Centre
Brent Artist Resource Annual Show - Willesden Green Library Centre
Perceptions of Balance - Curated by and exhibited at Creative Steps and then toured to 40 Gracechurch Street in the City of London
Lauderdale House Hidden/Exposed - Mile End Art Pavilion Annual
Photographic Competition - Lauderdale House, Highgate Hill, London
Brent Artist Resource - Willesden Green Library Centre