Documentary and editorial photographer based near Newcastle Upon Tyne in the North of England with over 3 decades of industry experience. Regular commissioning clients have included, The Guardian, Financial Times, Independent, Daily and Sunday Telegraph’s, Channel 4, BBC, Health Service Journal, Community Care, Unison, Unite etc.

Born: 1966, Barrow In Furness, Cumbria.

Education:
1984/-85 Foundation in Media Studies, London College of Printing .
1985-87 HND in Documentary Photography, Newport College of Art.

Exhibitions:
GLC/South Bank photography competition, Waterloo Station, London, 1985, (group show).
 ‘From Scotswood to Kurdistan’, Side Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1989. (solo show).
 ‘The Gateshead Garden Festival’, Gateshead Library Gallery, 1991, (solo show).
 ‘The Everyday Political’, CGP/Southwark Park Gallery, 2018, (group show). Curator: George Vasey
‘Facing Britain’ Museum Goch/IKS, October 2020, (group show). Curator: Ralph Goertz.
‘Macromancy’, Northern Galley of Contemporary Art, Sunderland, scheduled mid 2021. Curator: Alistair Robinson

Publications:
‘Easington Colliery, 1987-1993’, Cafe Royal Books, October 2018. Editor: Graig Atkinson.
’Newcastle West End: Elswick to Newburn’, Cafe Royal Books, July 2020. Editor: Craig Atkinson.
‘Macromancy’ NGCA Sunderland/Kerber Verlag, scheduled mid 2021. Editor: Alistair Robinson.

Selected links:
Guardian feature on Cafe Royal/Newcastle West end book.
Review of ‘The Everyday Political’ at CGP/Southward Park Gallery in This Is Tomorrow.
Preview of ‘Facing Britain’ show on the British Photographic History website.

Please note: Rather strangely, there is a second Mark Pinder trading as a photographer on Tyneside. Despite being asked several times to provide clear disambiguations on his marketing material to differentiate us, he has pointedly refused. He has also been caught attempting to take advantage of the potential confusion in our shared  name by offering to accept work not meant for him from a client who had contacted him in error even though it was blatantly obvious by the wording of the approach that a mistake had been made. If you are looking for the other Mark Pinder, he can be found at his slightly NSFW glamour site, www.markp.com or his commercial site at www.markpinder.co.uk. I’ve not hot linked these sites for obvious reasons. 

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