User:Crunchydillpickle/sandbox/Mark Laita

just getting sources together

Mark Laita, born 1959 or 1960, tktk.

He spent the first decades of his career in advertising, "where he took hyper realistic photographs of subjects ranging from Gatorade bottles to dogs wearing Beats headphones"

He started Soft White Underbelly because “I realized the limitations in a photograph" - Paper interview

His 2009 photo book Created Equal, which featured portraits of people from all 48 states of the continental United States, including astronauts, ballerinas, boxers, garbage men, and polygamists. During and after the project, he became increasingly interested in capturing a person in their present state. “What I’m doing now is just an extension of that," he told Paper.

https://www.papermag.com/soft-white-underbelly-youtube

Serpentine:

https://lataco.com/serpentine-mark-laita

https://laist.com/shows/take-two/picture-this-mark-laita-captures-the-beauty-of-natures-deadliest-serpents

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/14/science/in-serpentine-beautiful-snakes-twisting-and-turning.html

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/snakes-in-a-frame-mark-laitas-stunning-photographs-of-slithering-beasts-27577991/

https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/art/full-scale-reproductions-mark-laita-s-serpentine/article_423cb42a-97d6-11e2-873f-0019bb30f31a.html

Sea:

https://mymodernmet.com/mark-laita-sea/

Created Equal:

https://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2011/12/02/_created_equal_by_mark_laita_photographs_of_pimps_polygamists_and_many_more.html

SFU interview:

https://www.tpr.org/podcast/the-source/2021-10-25/soft-white-underbelly-interview-series-shines-a-light-on-difficult-realities-of-the-human-condition