1989-1997 Trent Parke " — Mark Steinmetz

" — Mark Steinmetz

The project vindicates the wild and spontaneous nature that insists on growing on the edges of roads or on the margins

an understated poetry emerges from the scene

spanning the 1970s

“a space where things can happen

1989-1997 Trent Parke " — Mark SteinmetzBill Jacobson 1989 1997 twin palms publishers november 1998 10 x 12 inches 52 tritone plates 112 pages first edition I started taking photographs as a teenager, nearly twenty five years ago. Since then my work has been an ongoing meditation around desire, loss, and the role of photography as a vehicle for remembrance. My pictures often function as metaphors for the way the mind works: simultaneously collecting images while letting others go, fading in