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Mark Power
, British, b.1959
Title
Miyazaki, Japan, 2000Date2003
MediumC-type print
Dimensions
30.5 × 40.5 cm
Signedon verso, lower right: Mark Power
Credit LinePresented, Zelda Cheatle, 2024
Object numberNGI.2024.71.23
DescriptionThe British photographer Mark Power is a member of Magnum Photos. Between 1999 and 2003, Magnum selected 47 European photographers to work in Japan for 20 days. This initiative was set up to ‘achieve a deeper mutual understanding between Japan and Europe’, and Power was asked to work in Miyazaki, a sub-tropical region on the Southern Japanese island of Kyushu. This mysterious photograph with an intriguing point of view belongs to his wider series of photographs of Miyazaki. Reflecting on his calling as a photographer, Power states: "Now that everyone in the developed world seems to own some form of camera, a different space has opened for documentary photographers. It's a space free from specific events, where there are different expectations, where it is first and foremost about ideas. Now we can all take pictures, with varying degrees of ability, it's what we do with our cameras that counts." (Magnum Photos Website, Mark Power)
This image is part of a portfolio of 30 photographs published by Zelda Cheatle in 2003 to celebrate 15 years of exhibitions in her London gallery. The artists included in this collection reflect Cheatle’s aim to highlight the work of important twentieth century photographers while at the same time exhibiting and supporting emerging artists. The photographs range from digital prints to silver gelatin prints and cyanotypes.
Inscriptionon verso, lower left: Miyazaki, Japan. 2000
on verso, lower centre: 24/60
on verso, lower right: © MARK POWER/ ?2008
ProvenancePresented, Zelda Cheatle, 2024Exhibition HistoryZelda Cheatle Gallery , London, 2003