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Mark Kasumovic (born 1982) is a Canadian artist, photographer and academic. His artistic work has tackled subjects such as tourism, religion, science and technology and often employs the use of a view camera. Mark is a Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader of Photography at De Montfort University, Leicester.

Life and Work
Mark Kasumovic was born in Hamilton, Ontario in 1982. He studied photography at Toronto Metropolitan University (2005-2009) under artists Robert Burley and Phil Bergerson. He completed his postgraduate education (2010-2012) at NSCAD University in Nova Scotia in 2012. He later received his doctorate (2013-2018) from University of Western Ontario in Fine Arts and Visual Communication.

His undergraduate work was featured in the Magenta Foundation Flash Forward: Emerging Photographers publication in 2009 and 2010, compiling emerging artists and photographers from Canada, the US and the UK.

His first major body of work titled, "PICTURE/PERFECT" was acquired by the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in 2012, and focussed on "using the tourist as a backdrop to explore the explosion of digital images as data in the information age". A video piece title "Peggy's Cove - Reconstructed [2012]" appeared in Canadian Art was quoted as showing "the cove’s idyllic rock-and-sea-scape infiltrated by people all looking for the best shot to encapsulate the experience", making the "viewer feel like one of the people depicted; someone looking for the perfect shot of the Halifax or Atlantic art scene, which of course is impossible."

In 2010, he was commissioned by the Ontario Greenbelt (Golden Horseshoe) to photograph recreational spaces in Southwestern Ontario, culminating in a public exhibition called Beyond Imaginings at the Harbourfront Centre. In 2012, he was commissioned by the Harbourfront Centre to produce work in response to the bi-centenneial of the War of 1812, producing hybridized images capturing war re-enactors in various Ontario cities including Wasaga Beach.

Since 2013, his work has focused on photographing international laboratories such as CERN, SNOLAB and the Svalbard Seed Vault, in an attempt to build relationships between the acts of photography and scientific discovery. His related doctoral thesis argues for a contemporary form of Radical Documentary grounded in political and aesthetic incoherence, and uses the photobook as a medium to explore these concepts.

In 2016, Mark exhibited his work in an exhibition titled "INSTRUMENTAL" within the XIT-RM Project space at the Art Gallery of Mississauga during the 2016 Scotiabank Contact Festival.

From 2019, he moved to the UK to set up the photography department at Teesside University, serving as the inaugural Programme Leader for MA and BA Photography. Since 2021, he has been teaching photography at De Montfort University and is part of the Photographic History Research Centre.

Mark was a contributing artist to the GardenShip and State SSHRC funded project, which tackled issues surrounding climate change using a post-colonial and collaborative framework. His contribution to the exhibition included five photographs depicting the subtle effects of climate change on the British landscape alongside a video work depicting scientific research on water quality in Rottnest Island, Australia.

His self-published book, "A Human Laboratory" was selected as a winner in the 2023 Belfast Photography Festival.