Mark Dorf

Mark Dorf grew up in Louisville, Kentucky and graduated from The Savannah College of Art and Design with a B.F.A in Photography and Sculpture. Employing a mix of photography and digital media, Dorf’s work explores the post-analogue experience - society’s interactions with the digital world and its relationship to our natural origins. Dorf scrutinizes the influence of the information age, and explores his theme through a combination of photography and digital media, examining in his most recent works how we encounter, translate, and understand our surroundings through the filter of science, math and technology. Mark seeks to understand our curious habitation of the 21st century world through the juxtaposition of nature and the digital domain.

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 In these photos Mark Dorf  explores the effect of internet and digital technology on our every day lives and how much we are affected by it. By using geometric form he contrasts this effect of technology versus  nature to show our tendency to digitize our surroundings. 

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 Photos of images of nature have continued through the forms that the artist has made in his photos. It looks like a mirror that is reflecting the surrounding environment to us.  The image of nature is  very smoothly absorbing  its surrounding environment through the very nice play with light.   Referring to the artist, these geometrical forms are refering to digital technology and how the understanding of nature is through technology . We prefer to see the image of natural life instead of experiencing the reality.  In these photos we have a mirror of nature, an image inside another image of a real place.  We are looking at these images through the internet via our computers. The whole process shows different stages that separate us from the real environment and how understanding of our surroundings is happening through the layers and  stages of image making. We experience our life through different images of reality  behind the computer screens  instead of really existing in the actual natural place.