"Inevitably, one thinks of the famous Gare de Toulon(1861) by Edouard Baldus, one of the most iconic emblems of 19th century French photography: the same centered frame, the same focus on a non-subject, the same feeling of enigmatic evidence in face of the resistance of reality. The photographs of Marc Wilson belong to those, too rare, which almost naturally make the link between the concerns of the pioneers of early photography and the questioning of contemporary art...."
From Le Réel qui nous résiste by Jean-Louis Roux.
Working in the genre of documentary landscape photography, Marc Wilson embraces locations that we are all drawn to. Snowdonia in Wales, the old pier in Brighton or the Swiss Alps. He shows us these recognizable landscapes, their raw nature, and their relationship to the human presence that may have been drawn towards them. Be it the recognition of a solitary human form or the physical trace of human intervention, these images allow the viewer to understand the vastness of the landscape and its natural power.
The journey to this work has evolved through many projects over the last ten years, at times focusing on a particular theme such as his past project Abandoned, and has led to Marc’s continuing body of work that documents the landscapes that surround us and his current project that portrays the evidence and legacy of man in the landscape.
