You can find work done by Marry Ellen Mark indexed under social photojournalism and portraiture- traveling extensively so that her photographs might reflect a high degree of humanism. Mary Ellen Mark has published photo essays and portraitures in publications such as LIFE, New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair. She has also published 16 books- including Exposure which showcases 134 of her best images. What I think is especially inspirational about Mary Ellen Mark's work is the involvement in her subjects lives. Not only do her images evoke a vast array of emotion, but the viewer is also shown a glimpse of the changes and development in an individual's life.
"The common threads of humanity exist in all of us- love, hate, humor, tragedy, sadness, envy, greed. The important thing is to see the humanity in everybody."
--Mary Ellen Mark (in an interview with Audrey Jonckheer)
Calcutta (1980)
Amanda and her Cousin, Amy Valdese, North California
Tiny, Halloween (1983)
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