Exposição - Mary Ellen Mark, Encounters, CO Berlin, until Jan 18, 2024
The Damm family in their car, Los Angeles, California, 1987 © Mary Ellen Mark
The exhibition Mary Ellen Mark . Encounters features five iconic projects created by the photographer in the 1970s and 1980s, later publishing them in a series of photobooks that played a crucial role in cementing her reputation. Ward 81 collects her documentation of women in a state mental institution in Oregon over a period of weeks, Falkland Road is a reportage on sex workers in Mumbai, Mother Teresa’s Missions of Charity is an eponymous exploration both of the woman and her mission, Indian Circus reproduces a series depicting traveling circus families, while Mark's award-winning Streetwise project and subsequent, Tiny: Streetwise Revisited show her ongoing commitment to telling the story of Erin Charles, who was thirteen when they first met, and known as Tiny. Mark began the project when Tiny was living on the streets and continued photographing her (and eventually her ten children) over the next thirty years.
Mary Ellen Mark, Encounters, CO Berlin, until Jan 18, 2024