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Oedipus, 2024
Mark Harvey  

Photography : C-print, black & white edition, fine art print · 91.5 x 61 x 0.1 cm 36 x 24 x 0 inch · Ready to hang

€2,184 2 184 €
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Photography : numbered and limited to 15 copies

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Artwork sold in perfect condition, framed, ready to hang

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Dimensions ( cm • inch )

91.5 x 61 x 0.1 cm 36 x 24 x 0 inch Height x Width x Depth

Artwork dimensions including frame

91.6 x 61.1 x 2 cm 36.1 x 24.1 x 0.8 inch

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Description

A white stallion drinks while regarding his own beauty.

Mark Harvey's striking black-and-white artwork captures a horse in an elegant pose, drinking at the edge of a tranquil water surface. The scene is masterfully composed, with the horse's reflection mirrored perfectly below, creating a seamless, symmetrical image that blurs the line between reality and illusion. The use of monochrome accentuates the contours and details of the horse's muscular form and graceful curve of its neck, highlighting the powerful yet serene nature of the creature. The stark, high-contrast background isolates the subject, focusing attention entirely on the horse's refined silhouette. This image is a testament to the beauty and grace of equine forms, distilled into a moment of calm introspection. Its visual harmony invites viewers to reflect on the purity and elegance of nature.

Mark Harvey is renowned for his carefully crafted lighting and detailed animal studies. His photographic style lends a dramatic, almost sculpture-like stillness to his subjects.

His Equine series captures the dignity and beautiful lines of thoroughbred horses. Harvey uses a medium format Hasselblad camera.

The medium format approach and hi-speed flash synchronisation creates images of phenomenal detail and clarity even at the largest sizes.

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Mark Harvey, Oedipus

Mark Harvey

United Kingdom  • 1979

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Photographer Mark Harvey is renowned for his carefully crafted lighting and detailed animal studies particularly in the equine world.  His trademark style lends a dramatic, almost sculpture-like stillness to his subjects.

His In Flight series captures both quiet moments of reflection as well as the dynamism of the birds aerial acrobatics.  Shot on a medium format Hasselblad camera the collection features both common garden birds including magpies, blue tits, starlings, goldfinches, great tits, coal tits, long-tailed tits, and green finches and magnificent raptors such as the Golden Eagle and the Barn Owl.

Harvey studied ecology at UEA before moving on to photography at Central St Martins, London. His work has been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery, London, has been profiled by National Geographic and has featured in numerous publications globally.  He has worked with some of the most prestigious riders and horses in the equestrian world.

He lives in Norfolk, England.

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