Mark Van Bergh
Although formally educated as an attorney, Mark has been actively photographing since high school. Through the years, he has developed his unique style by combining mostly self-taught technical skills with his personal vision. Mark has been active in different areas of photography, including people, nature, and wildlife.While his general approach to photography is photojournalistic, his photographs are more than just straightforward, documentary pictures that show the relationship of the subject to its surroundings at any given time. They reflect Mark’s personal interpretation of events.
When photographing a wedding, Mark uses a similar approach. Most of the photographs are un-posed, taken in reaction to the day’s events as they unfold. In Mark’s eyes, the real story of a wedding is shown through strong candid photographs of people and their spontaneous reactions to events, and photographs of the details that distinguish the personalities of the couple.
In addition to photographing numerous Washington, D.C. area weddings and Bar/Bat Mitzvahs over the past ten years, Mark’s photographic interests include a passion for nature photography, including landscapes and wildlife. Mark’s photographic pursuits have taken him throughout the United States, including many of our National Parks and wildlife refuges, to Europe, and the sub-Sahara African nations of Botswana, Kenya, Namibia, South Africa and Tanzania. Mark sells prints of his photographs, and has had photographs displayed at several venues in the Washington, D.C. area. A number of Mark’s photographs appear in the coffee-table book Focus on Africa: Wildlife, Conservation and Man.
