2nd Oct 1999 - 26th Oct 1999
University Gallery
Mark Power is an experienced documentary photographer whose work has been exhibited widely and published in several major magazines, including the Sunday Times, the Observer, the Independent and the Telegraph.
In 1996 Mark Power was asked to photograph a contaminated piece of waste ground in Southeast London, the site for an unspecified new building. A year later he was commissioned by the New Millennium Experience Company to return to the site and document the building of the Dome through its various stages of construction. Now, one hundred visits later, his work has evolved from bleak black and white images into vivid colour, becoming a personal interpretation of the transformation of both the space and the building. As the exhibition tours it too is evolving as new work is added; this show (coming close to the construction deadline of December 31st) is the most recent incarnation.
Most recently known for the hugely successful 'Shipping Forecast' book and exhibition, Mark Power's photographs of the Millennium Dome are both epic and minute in detail, monumental and beautiful. The Dome is to belong to us all, even if we never visit it and these pictures are sufficient evidence of a remarkable vision made into a historic and contemporary icon
