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
Gomma Publishing Grant Finalist - 2026
FotoSlovo - Honorable Mention - 2026
First Site Bursary Award - 2025
Lens Culture Critics Award 2025
Richard and Siobhán Coward Foundation Award 2024
Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial 2023
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary 2021
Muse Gallery six-month Residency 2017
National Disability Arts Collection & Archive Research & Development Award 2017
Book
Dis-location
Talks
Mark Tamer in Conversation with IMA: Are there too many images in the world?
Recent Exhibitions
2026
Open Studios - Kindred, London
Remedy Photo Festival, Lincoln
Through Their Lens: Five Photographers of Notting Hill, London
2025
Breath + Blaze - Candid Arts, London
2024
Muse Gallery 20th Anniversary - Muse Gallery, Portobello Road, London
2023
Memories & Mementos II, WWW Gallery, Queens Park, London
2022
TASC at Hand 2022 - Muse Gallery, Portobello Road, London
Everybody’s Happy Nowadays - online exhibition collaboration with sound artist Amit R Sharma
Shape Arts Annual Open - online
Qube Open Art Competition - Qube, Oswestry
2021
Hot Sheet - The Department Store, Brixton
No Frost at Night - Babylon Gallery, Ely
2020
Cluster Photography & Print - Ugly Duck’s warehouse, London Bridge
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, LondonART-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
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