Octopus Studios

Mark McCarvill is a self-taught photographer who makes black-and-white images of the Canadian and international landscape. His artistic influences include photographers like Ansel Adams and Michael Kenna, and painters such as Tom Thomson and Lawren Harris. Mark is originally from Prince Edward Island but spent many years in both Ottawa and Toronto before moving to Vancouver. Mark’s photographs have been exhibited at the National Press Club in Ottawa, the McMichael Gallery in Kleinburg (Ontario), and the Vancity Credit Union in Vancouver, among other venues. In 2015, Mark was among the artists chosen to participate in the juried Eastside Culture Crawl Firehall Preview Show at the Firehall Arts Centre.