Name:
mark schacter

Bio & Visual Exchange Page:
http://photoworkshop.com/bv/view/mschacter

Bio & Visual Exchange Index:
http://photoworkshop.com/photo_index/mschacter

Portfolio(s):
Photography by Mark Schacter -- more at www.luxetveritas.net

Personal Website:
http://www.luxetveritas.net

Member Since:
09/11/2007

About mark schacter:
I live in Ottawa, Canada with my wife, daughters and cats. Many, though not all, of the photographs I post on Photoworkshop.com were shot in Canada: on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, in the Laurentian mountains in the province of Quebec, on the rugged Lake Superior shoreline of northern Ontario, and in urban centers such as Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver. I’m equally interested in landscapes, urban scenes, and rural and small-town environments. What fascinates me – and this has been so since boyhood – is how photography allows you to extract what’s essential from any setting. I want to produce images that, through purity of idea and simplicity of composition, have emotional, intellectual and aesthetic impact. To me, striking images are ones that are simultaneously ordinary and beautiful because they touch what is fundamental to visual experience. Images that attract me are built on the bones and sinews of perception: lines and curves; light and shade; patterns and perspective; contrast and repetition.