Exhibition was a success - moving on

The CASS exhibition was a tremendous success, on the opening night there was over 1600 visitors inside the gallery, which is outstanding! I got to meet new people and I was quite amazed on how many people enjoyed my work. As a purist photographer I was expecting a narrow crowd viewing my work, but instead I got a lot of feedback on my technical skills and the symbolism of the images.

Needless to say, I am very happy with the entire show. It was up from Monday untill Sunday afternoon, and there was a lot of people grabbing my contact details. I had 70 postcard pictures, 50 artist statments and 100+ business cards, and there was only a few cards remaining when I took the work down on Sunday.

For now that brings closure to my London chapter, and Monday morning I started the 3000 km drive to my hometown in northern Norway. Now there is a new chapter and a new set of challenges, my days as a student is finally over which means I need to start attracting new clients to pay the bills.

For me everything pointed in the direction of my hometown Bodø. I got my family, friends, network, access to a lot of different locations and different models. In short any project is possible in the town above the arctic circle. To me that makes more sense rather than moving to a bigger city and knocking on doors that have been knocked on thousand of times before.

Now it is all about pushing myself every day to create stronger images and enhance my portfolio all the time. I wish to work with big international clients somewhere in the future, and I feel the best way to do that is to make every image twice as good as my client expect all the time. Then one day, my dream about traveling around the world shooting fashion and advertising images might come true.

But untill that day you will find me in my office in Bodø from Monday the 25th of June. Feel free to call me on +47 99 000 906 or simply email me at engmark@live.no - and I will bust my ass to delicer twice what you expect.