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THE AUTHOR
Mark D. Young is an award-winning South
African photojournalist, writer and
photographic mentor. He was born in the city
of Pretoria in 1962 and educated at
Rietondale and Clapham schools in the city
of his birth.
He has been taking photographs
professionally since the age of 18 and has
given basic, intermediate and advanced
tuition in photography to more than 3 000
camera owners during his career which has
included “shutter-finger” time spent on newspapers, magazines and as
a consultant in retail outlets.
He is well acquainted with the Olympus camera family having owned
and used various Olympus products since 1974. He has also counted
amongst his camera gear various Canon, Nikon, Yashica and Contax
equipment and retains an “interesting” collection of
classic
photographica
of all brands and vintages.
He was the founding editor of
Great Photography and Video
,
SA Photo
and
Digital Photofocus
magazines and has worked and/or photographed
in locations all around the world, gaining useful experience in the usage
of camera equipment in climates ranging from Arctic cold to desert
heat. He has taught numerous South African National Antarctic
Expedition teams “the ropes” in regard to photography, has inducted
numerous “Street Freelancers” (Self-employed social photographers
working in all centres of South Africa) into the business and is a regular
guest lecturer at various Universities of Technology and at the South
African National College of Photography.
He currently resides in Durban, South Africa where he was recently
appointed the Founding Chair of the
Whysall’s Photographic Academy
,
an arm of a famous photographic supply group which is wholly
dedicated to educating all camera owners in the joys of photography.
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