Mark Chester Photography

A Six Month Stay for Mark Chester’s Twosomes at Busboys & Poets 14th & V

Washington DC 14th & V | June - November 2013

A collection of black and white photographs made over forty years, representing vastly varied subjects, roles, and cultures; pairing images of differing decades, countries, and ethnicities; making connections through commonalities, with an ever-present, but never unkind humor.

Thirty-eight framed diptychs will be exhibited along with the award-winning companion book (2011, Un-Gyve Press).

Details to be announced. For more information please visit: www.twosomes.net and www.busboysandpoets.com

Cutout Man, New York, 1971 | U.S. Capitol, Washington D.C., 1977

Copyright © Mark Chester

View the March issue of El Mundo below, Reportaje Especial pp. 32-33. 

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Orleans Camera & Video Class: Saturday, October 27th 10AM-1PM

The white sign glared from the black asphalt road: “Very Slow.”

It is a sensible warning, for there is no need to hurry in West Ireland. The corridor from Doolin in County Clare to Dingle in County Kerry stirs with scenes of earth, rain, and fire supported by a cast of Irish characters.

I came to Ireland accompanying the Stage Door Canteen, a swing band from Falmouth, Mass., my hometown. Its big-band sound differs from the traditional Irish Celtic music I discovered on Ireland’s Southwest Coast.

Sculptures by Louis Mulcahy in Dingle             Copyright © Mark Chester

Though there was the sound of a roaring fire in the parlor of Moy House, it was a shot of Midleton single malt Irish whiskey that soothed my nerves after driving six hours on the left-hand side of the road from Dublin to the West Coast.

Moy House is a refurbished 1820s private home built of local sea stone and situated on Liscannor Bay, now a Bed and Breakfast set on 15 wooded acres with a river running through it. The welcome letter to guests invites “weather and, time permitting, you may wish to borrow a pair of Wellies and head down our lawn to the Atlantic…”

The “weather permitting” part was a tip off. They say the same thing in Ireland as in New England. “If you don’t like the weather, wait a minute.”

But no matter the time of day, the last weekend of February, is magical in Doolin. It is the place where the best Irish musicians play in the Russell Memorial Weekend that honors the three late Russell brothers, Micho, Pakie, and Gusso, Doolin’s world-class concertina, timber flute and tin whistle players, respectively. Born in the early 1900s, the brothers Russell have left an indelible impression on Irish music.

Read the full story of Mark Chester’s travels through Ireland in The Epoch Times »

October 5, 5:00 - 9:00 p.m. at Boston’s South End Artist Guild, 450 Harrison Avenue.

Visit Mark Chester Photographs in Suite 410A

Twosomes photography exhibition and companion book by Mark Chester (Un-Gyve Press) will be on display concurrently through September 2012 at The Mashpee Public Library  64 Steeple Street and the Falmouth Jewish Congregation 7 Hatchville Road.

Don’t miss the talk and signing  at FJC  Thursday, Aug 23, 2012 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

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25 Feb – 23 Aug 2012

The Copley Society of Art is proud to present a new off-site exhibition space at Pigalle, a Parisian restaurant in Boston’s Theatre district located at 75 Charles Street, currently featuring photographs by Mark Chester. Chester documents humanity in black and white with well judged comic timing. Chester’s ironic and interesting photographs have been published in numerous publications around the nation including the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune.

Cruise Ship Passengers, Massachusetts, 1971 Copyright © Mark Chester

Now on view at PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury Vermont.

Portfolios will be available for viewing at the gallery and on-line for one year with an exhibit July 10 through August 4th, 2012. 

Eyeglasses, California, 1978 | Sol Moscot Optician, New York, 1970 Copyright © Mark Chester (from Twosomes, Un-Gyve Press)

When Ivan and Ethan Karp offered an exhibition of Twosomes at OK Harris, Ethan quipped,

Since (as you know), the end of the world falls on December 21, 2012, we might want to make it sometime in the spring or early fall at the latest.

Twosomes and Mark Chester Photography were the beneficiaries of being welcomed into Ivan Karp’s world, graciously hosted at OK Harris.

From the New York Times:

Ivan Karp, a cigar-chomping, fast-talking New York gallery owner who helped find, popularize and market the Pop artists of the 1960s, including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg, died on Thursday at his home in Charlotteville, N.Y. He was 86. 

Sam Falk/The New York Times

Ivan Karp, who helped find and market Pop Art, center, flanked by the gallery owner Leo Castelli, and Andy Warhol, in 1966.

IN THE PRIVATE ROOM

Mark Chester has been a professional photographer since 1972. His photographs and/or feature stories have been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and The Chicago Tribune among other periodicals.

Photographs from Chester’s latest book, Twosomes, published by Un-Gyve Press in 2011, feature pairings of photographs from decades of traveling the globe. Through Chester’s photographs he has captured, in a sense, the unrelated nature of chance. The side-by-side placement of the photographs feed off of each other, and to some, might appear amusing and a bit tongue-in-cheek.

Opening Reception and Book Signing with Mark Chester will be held on
Wednesday, May 30, 2012 | 5:30-7:30 PM

motionatny [Motion-At-New-York], created by New York based artist Ofill Echevarria as a part of his work as a photographer, film-maker and producer, shared these clips of Steven Pennell, curator of the exhibit, speaking at the opening reception on Gallery Night Providence:

Mark Chester’s “Twosomes” at The University of Rhode Island.
Feinstein Providence Campus. Providence, RI.

As a part of “Twosomes/Urban Extensions”
Features works by Mark Chester & Ofill Echevarria

Steven Pennell, Coordinator of Art and Culture at URI
Speaks at the opening reception: April of 2012

© Filmed and postproduced by M@NY, on April 2012.

Ofill Echevarria’s “Urban Extensions” at The University of Rhode Island.
Feinstein Providence Campus. Providence, RI.

As a part of “Twosomes/Urban Extensions”
Features works by Mark Chester & Ofill Echevarria

Steven Pennell, Coordinator of Art and Culture at URI
Speaks at the opening reception: April of 2012

© Filmed and postproduced by M@NY, on April 2012.
© M@NY 2012.

One Night Stand: Photographer Mark Chester
Thursday, April 26, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
Admission $5; no reservations required

URI Feinstein Providence Campus Gallery80 Washington Street (1st and 2nd floor lobby) Mon-Thurs 9-9, Fri & Sat 9-4401 277-5206 | spennell@etal.uri.edu

www.uri.edu/prov/missionvision/urbanarts/currentgallery.html

Handicapped accessible

April 2-27
TWOSOMES/URBAN EXTENSIONS by MARK CHESTER & OFILL ECHEVARRIA
Gallery Night Reception April 19, 5-9pm

The exhibit features two remarkable artists in different media from
different cultural worlds.

Mark Chester presents an exhibit of the photography from a lifetime of
travel across the globe captivatingly presented in pairs of seemingly
unrelated images which bare remarkable relationships, they engage in a dialogue on the wall.

Ofill Echevarria, Cuban-American painter and multimedia artist
captures realistic images from urban life that explore the world
beneath and beyond the surface in a dynamic dialogue with the soul.

25 Feb – 23 Aug 2012

The Copley Society of Art is proud to present a new off-site exhibition space at Pigalle, a Parisian restaurant in Boston’s Theatre district located at 75 Charles Street, currently featuring photographs by Mark Chester. Chester documents humanity in black and white with well judged comic timing. Chester’s ironic and interesting photographs have been published in numerous publications around the nation including the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune.

Cruise Passengers, Massachusetts, 1971 Copyright © Mark Chester

The photograph is among those exhibited in pairs in Twosomes the touring exhibition and companion book by Mark Chester on Un-Gyve Press.

Blueprint Building, New York, 1972 Copyright © Mark Chester from Twosomes

Opportunity to bid on this signed photograph, donated by Mark Chester Photography, to benefit WGBH Public Television.

Item No. 98 — Bidding Closes 03/24/12 11:32:00 PM ET

Twosomes at Balance, Baltimore from Un-Gyve Limited on Vimeo.

Photographer Mark Chester’s juxtaposed photos, taken at widely different times and places, are currently on view in SoHo, Manhattan. “Men With Pipes, Sweden, 1972, and Tribal Woman With Pipe, the Philippines, 1977.” (Courtesy of Mark Chester)

NEW YORK—Mark Chester’s current exhibition resonates with subtle humor and blatant skill. Chester’s photographs are displayed as individually framed pairs (diptychs) in the aptly titled Twosomes exhibit in SoHo, Manhattan.

Read Katherine Smith’s full article at The Epoch Times »

Photographer Mark Chester travelled with his camera for over 40 years, documenting all that he saw along the way. On his ongoing touring exhibition, he showcases some of his works during his travels. (Read the full article at Lomography »)

23 Feb – 29 Mar 2012

The Copley Society of Art is pleased to present our annual Winter Members’ Show. During the course of the calendar year, Co|So offers two or more seasonal juried exhibitions, open to more than 400 active artist members.

For each exhibition, guest jurors are invited to review submissions, determine the show’s composition, and select the award-winning pieces. This winter, we were honored to have as jurors: David Brown, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs of Graduate Programs at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and Miriam Stewart, Curator of the Collection of the European and American Art Division at the Harvard Art Museums.

Members’ Reception:*
Thursday, February 23, 2012 5:30 - 7:30
*Members: free | Non-Members: $10

“Portholes” and “Chauffeurs” were both selected from nearly 250 submissions by jurors David Brown of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Miriam Stewart of the Fogg Museum, Harvard for the Co|So Winter Members’ Show: Impressions.

Portholes Copyright © 2011 Mark Chester

I think it’s safe to say that each one of us has a role model, someone who touched us or influenced our direction in life, either directly or indirectly.

With the passings of Walter Cronkite, the CBS Television newsman, and Don Hewitt, a CBS news producer and director, there was another CBS broadcaster who shaped my future. And now as I enter a mid-career stage in my profession, I reflect on the one role model who steered me to becoming a photojournalist.

He was remembered by the New York Times  and  small-town dailies.    Network  and  Cable  broadcasters  memorialized  their colleague  with  glowing  admiration.   Charles  Kuralt  was  the country’s Everyman.   He traveled America’s backroads chronicling folksy stories about real folks, way before “reality tv” shows.  His subjects were lauded as much as Kuralt himself, who died too young at 62, July 4, 1997. It’s a memorable date. He inspired my quest for independence.

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