Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design
A portfolio made by Mark Morgan Kincey
“Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.”
– Peter Adams
– Peter Adams
Who is Mark?
I was born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil and I have recently graduated from high school. Aside from my Brazilian education, I also spent two and a half years in the Singaporean schooling system commencing from the age of eight. This provided an outstanding experience with an insight into different cultures, as well as significantly improving my English ability and adaptation skills.
My passion for visual arts, particularly photography started at an early age. I always seemed more comfortable seeing the world through a lens and have been intrigued by the fact that different people viewing the same image through a lens will see and interpret it differently, with each persons photographic interpretation of the same image being unique.
In the past few years, I started to extend my photography beyond a hobby, producing photographic essays on a couple of vacation trips, participating in photography contests and working on the photography of short films. I have always had a photographic eye, however, I want to learn techniques, which extend beyond my current knowledge.
10 EXAMPLES OF YOUR CREATIVE PROCESS
New York City
Through late December and mid-January, I went to Manhattan for my second time, and this city never fails to amaze me, there are always moments that are new and exciting, what better way is there to walk around the Big Apple than with a camera?
Canada
In the summer of 2019, I went to Canada for the first time. I had the privilege to visit Toronto, Montreal, Quebec, Ottawa, and New Brunswick, capturing unique moments along the way.
PROCESS PROJECTS
In one original image or 20-second media clip, answer the question: What keeps you up at night?
The idea of showing my work to other people keeps me up all night. I think it’s frightening. A person's work is incredibly personal and intimate. It feels as if I'm completely exposing myself. I honestly think that this fear ever so often becomes the reason why I do what I do, the way I do it. I think I use it as a fuel to go deeper into my feelings. I guess I still have to learn to be completely exposed and feel as thought I'm wearing a suit.
In three original images, tell us a story about yourself.
We go to school every single day, from the moment we take our first steps to the moment we throw those funny looking hats into the air. It's a long worth-living journey.
Everyday, after school, I'd go by this very busy crosswalk on the way home. And
like school, I'd have to go back and walk over it again and again. Everyday I'd learn something different about that moment. Different people, different clothes, different sounds, all in the same place. So, I decided to photograph that moment and use it as a metaphor to what happens to us while we're in school. How can the same place be so different every single day? Well, I guess it all depends on how we look at it.
Using three different materials, build a model of what you would put in the centre of a town square. Include process sketches/photographs.
In the center of this town square, there'd be a huge globe. It'd work as time-traveling machine made out of reflective glass. Anyone would be able to go inside and travel around the world at any given period of time. Travellers would be able to share their experiences through pictures.
At night, the globe would be reflecting the city lights and it'd have a powerful beam of light coming out from the very top, so it could easily located. During the day it'd mainly reflect the sky and clouds, looking mostly blue throughout the day.
After responding to the three prompts artistically, please tell us how you feel about that entire creative process by writing no more than 50 words.
It’s great when you have the opportunity to express yourself artistically. Sometimes we cannot find words that can fully describe what we have in mind. After all, a picture is worth anywhere from one to a thousand words.
WRITTEN RESPONSES
What makes a problem interesting to you?
Every problem has a solution – the interesting part for me is how one gets to the solution. I enjoy the gear changing accelerated brainstorming initial phase. Adrenaline pumps and the heart pounds much like a downhill mountain bike race. Then comes the uphill phase which is a grind but still a challenge as you evaluate possible solutions, analyzing, refining or eliminating People tend to fear problems and rather than seeing them as opportunities for growth. The process of dealing with problems makes us more responsible and develops our leadership skills turning. Sometimes bad situations into positives.
Tell us about something that inspired you recently.
I am reserved by nature. Lately, I’ve been using photography and film to get out of my bubble. I´ve been going around my city speaking to new people and taking pictures as well as recording short films. As hard as this was for me at first, the process of meeting people and seeing things through a lens has been inspiring. I have seen people´s hopes, fears, joys, achievements and failures, and the emotion has been an inspiration for me. I discovered another world which had always been there for me to see but which I had not exposed myself to.
Make a list of all the things you’d like to learn at Emily Carr.
I have a passion for visual arts such as photography, cinematography, cinema, and design. I would hope to learn the following at Emily Carr:
Photographic techniques;
Different types of photography;
History of photography;
Styles of photography;
Practice different photography styles;
Arts interacting with media and industry;
Video and photo editing;
Everything on design, theory, and practice.
