Classics, newly discovered: He was the avant-garde among the fashion photographers – »being creative and being innovative« his leitmotif. Mark Mender put his focus long before his colleagues on »location«. The setting defines his work and tells about exciting stories from all around the world. From Alaska to Vermont represents Mender the zeitgeists of a generation – the swinging sixties and saucy seventies have been barely better expressed by any other photographer. Despite huge protests of his clients, he stopped 1981 with photography to apply himself to computer animation. 2012 Mender decided to open his archive. CONTRIBUTED has the honour to present his first single exhibition.
