Mary Ellen Mark was born on the 20th March 1940 and died on 25th May 2015. Mary is known for her photojournalism, documentary photography, portraiture, and advertising photograph. She often photographed people who were "away from mainstream society and toward its more interesting, often troubled fringes". Mary had 18 collections of her work published, and she received numerous awards, including three Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards, three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the 2014 Lifetime Achievement in Photography Award from the George Eastman House and the Outstanding Contribution Photography Award from the World Photography Organisation.
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She took pictures of people living in a different world, a different environment, different experiences and different stories.She wanted to show everyone the struggles they faced and what they did.
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Both of these pictures have something in common, they both include children with illegal objects, such as the cigarette and the gun that the boy is carrying. Mary was known for taking photos like this, as she had once said herself, that she likes to photograph pictures with "often troubled fringes", and the struggles children, teenagers, and adults' face on a day to day basis.
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