The Photography of Mark Holthusen

People have started asking me why it is I do what I do, and the answers are not easy, I suppose its fun, its scary and its what I have to do. I would say most of all its an overwhelming desire to do something different. You see in a world trying so hard for equality something socially and conciously I believe in there is something about the homoginization that disturbs me. Sure I believe that we are all equal that race, gender and nationality play no part in our worth. My work for me is a chance, if just briefly to do something no one else has done, for maybe just a little while to be different, and my pictures are my proof.

My most current project is called Technology and Self Loathing, in which I find or am contacted by people over the internet, I then try to have a real world experience with them and photograph the results. Things have included being asked to break into a womens house and climb into bed with her to a dominatrix comming to my house and shoving needles through my chest. I am currently looking for funding to fly to toronto and live with a man for a week who lives with his 7 manneqins and has agreed to me staying with him.

Im am currently living and San Francisco and working as a professional photographer. I shoot everything from cell phones and shoe risers to 220 pound prostitutes and transvestites.

I am available for assignments