Mark WilmanPhotography

Creative Statement

Originally from the Notting Hill area of London, I spent many years in Milan, a city which introduced me to several significant qualities such as ambition, beauty, creativity, excellence, humour, patience, precision and timing through a teaching career with a client list that included: Stefano Gabbana of Dolce e Gabbana, Gabriele Albertini - 8 year Mayor of Milan, Giampiero Vigorelli - a leading voice in Italian advertising, and many PhDs at the Università degli Studi di Milano.

Milan also unexpectedly introduced me to Maurizio Cattelan in person, an encounter one afternoon some years ago that has caused my curiosity towards art to grow ever since.

Those experiences bound together with an involving photographic career at the Milan Cricket Club, the fact that I have three younger sisters and no brothers, was born on International Woman’s Day (for me it has to be said) and a father who was deeply involved in diving, all prepared me for what came next: an impressive camera set and free time on my favourite Greek island.

The result is ‘Discovering the beauty of Ios - Wild, natural beauty blended with human beauty of the female kind’, my project and website theme officially accepted for consideration by MOMA, J.Paul Getty Museum, Louis Vuitton Foundation and Fondazione Benetton.

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