Mark Polege

Mark Polege is a fine art photographer who became a web developer. This path was the result of being introduced to photography during a stint at Clayton High school in the mid 1980’s. Though mostly self taught, photography has been a part of his life during his years of traveling & moving around the U.S. It really launched to a whole new level after a move to rural North Dakota from South St.Louis in 1998.

After spending 6 years exploring the back roads & abandoned farms frozen in time, he could not resist the urge to capture, and in a sense, record the places he discovered. “The thrill of discovering a place not touched for decades by anything other than the harsh elements of North Dakota was almost intoxicating. Some places looked almost apocalyptic to the point that you can’t help but wonder what it must have been like in its prime.” It is this same creative desire that drives Mark to shoot architecture while continuing his hunt of forgotten places upon his return to the St.Louis region in 2004, now in color as well as black & white.

Mark’s fine art photography tends to focus mostly in the area of black & whites. “I’ve photographed in both black & white & color, but black & white speaks to me more. The shapes, the shadows, the...

- BFA in Digital Design - 2005
- Self taught fine art photographer, perfecting my craft and vision for the past 25 years
- worked as a photojournalist for (3) years at a small newspaper
- worked as photographer for Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

I had (2) of my low light photographs featured at St.Louis, Missouri’s Sheldon Art Gallery as part of the St.Louis @ 250 art show in 2014. (1) “Moon Over St.Louis” is a 6-image wide panoramic of downtown St.Louis at night, under a full moon, and was featured in the art show in the TOP 100. (2) the other, “City Stream” is a captured of downtown St.Louis’ Washington Ave. at night, and was featured in the art show’s TOP 250.