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Robert ‘Max’ Mullins grew up in northeast Scotland before relocating to Illinois, where he attended college and then university. Following his graduation from Illinois State University with award-winning photography accolades to his credit, he attended the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California.
Throughout his career Max has engaged in a wide variety of freelance engagements, spanning studio to on-location photo shoots, commercial to fine art assignments, film and print scanning to digital image restoration.
Imaginative by nature, his work has been exhibited and internationally published, with a portfolio that maintains an appreciation for the traditional and a strong flair for the creative—featuring a wide variety of experimental themes, styles and techniques.
Personal acknowledgement:
I would like to express my gratitude to both the models that have posed for me, and the friends and acquaintances that have supported me in my photography aspirations. In your own distinct way, each of you has inspired me to advance my professional craft, realise my creative vision, and pursue my passion.
Dh'fhàs Robert ‘Max’ Mullins suas ann an ceann an ear-thuath na h-Alba mus do ghluais e a Illinois, far an deach e gu colaisde agus an uair sin don oilthigh. Às deidh dha ceumnachadh bho Oilthigh Stàite Illinois le duaisean togail dhealbhan a choisinn cliù, chaidh e gu Institiùd Dealbhadaireachd Brooks ann an Santa Barbara, California.
Fad a bheatha tha Max air a dhol an sàs ann an raon farsaing de dhleastanasan neo-cheangailte, a ’spangachadh stiùidio gu dealbhan dhealbhan air an àite, sònrachaidhean malairteach gu fìor-ealain, sganadh film is clò-bhualadh gu ath-nuadhachadh ìomhaighean didseatach.
Smaoinich le nàdar, tha an obair aige air a bhith air a thaisbeanadh agus air fhoillseachadh gu h-eadar-nàiseanta, le pasgan a tha a ’cumail meas air an dòigh thraidiseanta agus làidir airson an cruthachail - a’ nochdadh measgachadh farsaing de chuspairean, stoidhlichean agus dhòighean deuchainneach.
Aithneachadh pearsanta:
Bu mhath leam mo thaing a thoirt do na modailean a tha air mo shon, agus do na caraidean agus an luchd-eòlais a thug taic dhomh anns na h-amasan togail-dhealbh agam. Anns an dòigh shònraichte agad fhèin, tha gach aon dhiubh air mo bhrosnachadh gu bhith a ’toirt air adhart mo cheàird proifeiseanta, a’ toirt a-steach mo shealladh cruthachail, agus a ’leantainn mo dhìoghras.
Robert ‘Max’ Mullins a grandi dans le nord-est de l’Écosse avant de s’installer en Illinois, où il a fréquenté un collège puis une université. Après avoir obtenu son diplôme de l'Illinois State University avec des récompenses photographiques primées à son actif, il a fréquenté le Brooks Institute of Photography de Santa Barbara, en Californie.
Tout au long de sa carrière, Max s'est engagé dans une grande variété de missions indépendantes, couvrant des séances de photos de studio à sur place, des missions commerciales à des beaux-arts, la numérisation de films et d'impressions à la restauration d'images numériques.
Imaginatif par nature, son travail a été exposé et publié à l'échelle internationale, avec un portfolio qui maintient une appréciation du traditionnel et un fort flair pour la création - présentant une grande variété de thèmes, de styles et de techniques expérimentales.
Reconnaissance personnelle:
Je voudrais exprimer ma gratitude à la fois pour les modèles qui ont été posés pour moi et pour les amis et connaissances qui m'ont soutenue dans mes aspirations photographiques. Chacun à votre manière, chacun de vous m'a inspiré à faire progresser mon métier, à réaliser ma vision créative et à poursuivre ma passion.
Robert 'Max' Mullins wuchs im Nordosten Schottlands auf, bevor er nach Illinois zog, wo er das College und dann die Universität besuchte. Nach seinem Abschluss an der Illinois State University mit preisgekrönten Auszeichnungen für Fotografie besuchte er das Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, Kalifornien.
Während seiner Karriere war Max in einer Vielzahl von freiberuflichen Engagements tätig, von Studio- bis zu Fotoshootings vor Ort, von Werbeaktionen bis hin zu Kunstaufträgen, Film- und Druckscans bis hin zur digitalen Bildwiederherstellung.
Seine von Natur aus einfallsreichen Arbeiten wurden ausgestellt und international veröffentlicht. Das Portfolio bietet eine Wertschätzung für das Traditionelle und ein starkes Gespür für das Kreative - mit einer Vielzahl experimenteller Themen, Stile und Techniken.
Persönliche Bestätigung:
Ich möchte mich sowohl bei den Models, die für mich posiert haben, als auch bei den Freunden und Bekannten bedanken, die mich in meinen fotografischen Bestrebungen unterstützt haben. Jeder von Ihnen hat mich auf seine ganz eigene Weise inspiriert, mein professionelles Handwerk voranzutreiben, meine kreative Vision zu verwirklichen und meiner Leidenschaft nachzugehen.
Robert 'Max' Mullins ロバート「マックス」マリンズはスコットランド北東部で育ち、その後イリノイ州に移り、そこで大学に通いました。 イリノイ州立大学を受賞し、受賞歴のある写真賞を受賞した後、カリフォルニア州サンタバーバラのブルックス写真研究所に出席しました。
彼の経歴を通じて、マックスは、スタジオからロケ撮影、商業から美術の割り当て、映画やプリントのスキャンからデジタル画像の復元まで、さまざまなフリーランスの仕事に携わってきました。
想像力豊かで、彼の作品は展示され、国際的に公開されています。ポートフォリオには、伝統的なものに対する評価と創造性に対する強い才能があります。
個人的な承認:
私のために提起したモデルと、私の写真撮影の願望で私を支えてくれた友人や知人の両方に感謝します。 あなた自身のはっきりとしたやり方で、あなた方一人ひとりは私が私のプロの技術を進歩させ、私の創造的なビジョンを実現し、そして私の情熱を追求するよう促しました。
Роберт «Макс» Маллинс вырос на северо-востоке Шотландии, а затем переехал в Иллинойс, где он учился в колледже, а затем в университете. После окончания Университета штата Иллинойс, удостоенного многих наград в области фотографии, он посетил Институт фотографии Брукса в Санта-Барбаре, штат Калифорния.
На протяжении всей своей карьеры Макс работал в различных областях: от студий до фотосессий на местах, от рекламы до художественных заданий, от сканирования фильмов и печати до восстановления цифровых изображений.
Творческий характер его работы, он был выставлен и опубликован на международном уровне, с портфолио, которое поддерживает высокую оценку традиционного и сильного таланта для творчества - с широким разнообразием экспериментальных тем, стилей и методов.
Личное подтверждение:
Я хотел бы выразить свою благодарность как моделям, которые позировали для меня, так и друзьям и знакомым, которые поддержали меня в моих стремлениях к фотографии. По-своему, каждый из вас вдохновил меня на совершенствование моего профессионального мастерства, реализацию моего творческого замысла и развитие моей страсти.
Robert "Max" Mullins creció en el noreste de Escocia antes de mudarse a Illinois, donde asistió a la universidad y luego a la universidad. Después de su graduación de la Universidad Estatal de Illinois con reconocidos galardones de fotografía en su haber, asistió al Instituto Brooks de Fotografía en Santa Bárbara, California.
A lo largo de su carrera, Max se ha involucrado en una amplia variedad de trabajos independientes, que abarcan desde sesiones de fotos de estudio a locaciones, tareas comerciales a trabajos de bellas artes, escaneo de películas e impresiones y restauración de imágenes digitales.
Imaginativo por naturaleza, su trabajo ha sido exhibido y publicado internacionalmente, con un portafolio que mantiene una apreciación por lo tradicional y un gran talento para lo creativo, presentando una amplia variedad de temas, estilos y técnicas experimentales.
Reconocimiento personal:
Me gustaría expresar mi gratitud tanto a los modelos que me han planteado como a los amigos y conocidos que me han apoyado en mis aspiraciones de fotografía. De su propia manera, cada uno de ustedes me ha inspirado para avanzar en mi oficio profesional, realizar mi visión creativa y perseguir mi pasión.
Photography was one of the most important and progressive art forms of the 20th Century.
~ Sir Elton John
I think the most successful photographs at the end of the day, the magic of photography is that you can capture in one-thousandth of a second something that won’t exist before and won’t exist afterwards. If you don’t get it then, it’s gone.
~ Mario Testino
The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer's understanding of his subject and mastery of his process.
~ Edward Weston
I don’t want a big deal about a camera. It’s me that’s making the picture, that camera is only as good as I am. And so, I never invested in a camera just because it had a name.
~ Bunny Yeager
I think a lot of the time these days people are so concerned about having the right camera and the right film and the right lenses and all the special effects that go along with it, even the computer, that they're missing the key element.
~ Herb Ritts
I didn’t see why a photograph could not be a work of art. And I studied to make it one. I determined that photography would be accepted as art.
~ Alfred Stieglitz
The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavour, three concepts that describe the art of photography.
~ Helmut Newton
I believe that the essence of photography is black and white. Colour is but a deviance.
~ Sarah Moon
I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and understanding.
~ Wynn Bullock
The key is to photograph your obsessions. Think of a blank canvas, because that’s what you’ve got, and then think about what you want to see. Not anyone else.
~ David LaChapelle
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.
~ Ansel Adams
Grain is life, there's all this striving for perfection with digital stuff. I want a sense of the human and that is what breathes life into a picture. For me, imperfection is perfection.
~ Anton Corbijn
There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.
~ Robert Henri
I think it is important when you are photographing nude, for the nudes to look natural, for people to look comfortable, respectful and dignified in their own body. I like to photograph people nude; I don’t like them to be naked. There is a difference. You could be naked and still feel very comfortable and that is nude.
~ Mona Kuhn
My aspirations are to ennoble Photography and to secure for it the character and uses of High Art by combining the Real and Ideal and sacrificing nothing of the Truth by all possible devotion to Poetry and Beauty.
~ Julia Margaret Cameron
When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.
~ Patrick Demarchelier
Photography is about a single point of a moment. It’s like stopping time. As everything gets condensed in that forced instant. But if you keep creating these points, they form a line which reflects your life.
~ Nobuyoshi Araki
Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.
~Yousuf Karsh
A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.
~ Irving Penn
If a day goes by without my doing something related to photography, it's as though I've neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up.
~ Robert Mapplethorpe
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Biography
I have always had an inclination towards visual art and science. While many commonalities exist, visual art, through various medium and techniques, has allowed me to explore and express in a way which is stimulating and gratifying.
Photography always fascinated me, constantly snapping pictures, though it wasn’t until I bought my first manual camera, a Pentax K-1000, in my mid-teen years that I really began to explore the possibilities of manipulating pictures through various camera settings, lenses and filters.
During my junior college years, in the United States, I focused more on science while in my spare time I continued to draw, paint and explore photography. By the time I entered university, I had bought my second camera, a Minolta X-700. Science as a course of study soon became secondary as I concentrated on the various courses of art that were offered. After completing all available photography courses, I continued to pursue photography through an independent study programme at the university. I explored various photography techniques including the fundamental Zone System. My early work revolved around the study of light and shadow on the human form. Exhibiting in a juried show at the university gallery, I received an award for my photography; I summed up my work with the partial statement: ‘the use of light and shadow on the human form enabled me to capture something that appeared to come from nothing’. I graduated with a Fine Art degree in Photography.
After spending a year in Chicago working as a photographers assistant and pursuing freelance photography assignments, I moved to Santa Barbara, California where I attended Brooks Institute of Photography. The comprehensive curricula was methodical and intensive. The knowledge I gained was like a revelation; I came away with a more in-depth understanding of the many variables and the technical complexity involved in the photographic process from camera settings, lighting to developing and printing. I acquired extensive knowledge and skills in the operation of large format view cameras and added a Toyo View 45G and also a Hasselblad 500 C/M to my equipment bag.
Upon returning to Chicago, I continued to pursue photography as a career, working in photography retail and as a photographers assistant, all the while seeking freelance photography assignments, ranging from commercial, headshots, portraits to musicians and bands, and other work including weddings. I primarily used small and medium format through these years. While familiar with a variety of studio equipment, in my own studio I opted to use Paul C. Buff, White Lightning X-series monolight strobes and Smith-Victor continuous lighting along with a variety of Photoflex accessories. And in my darkroom, I used a Beseler Dichro 67S, though I only ever printed black-&-white.
Throughout this period, for my personal work, I continued to explore light and shadow on the human form. I researched and explored different photography styles, finding inspiration from circa 1900 nude figure to the seventies soft-dreamy-grainy-impressionist style. This, in part, led me to develop a custom photographic technique of using in-camera texture filters. As latex clothing became more prevalent, I explored the use of moulding liquid latex on the human body, which was partially inspired by shedding reptiles. Percolating through some of my work during this time were influences from the goth subculture movement.
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"From the Highlands of Scotland to the Windy City, (aka) Max brings his particular brand of vision. Educated at California's Brooks Institute, his credibility may be good, but his harnessed moments of singular beauty are astounding.
Aesthetic by nature, Max captures the sensuality of his models... powerful both in living colour and black and white, is understated drama, bathed in just the right light; luminous and darkly angelic."
— Rene Walczak, Industrial Nation Magazine
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I entered the world of digital photography with my first Apple computer, a Power Macintosh 8500/180 and Adobe Photoshop v3. I soon added a UMAX PowerLook II scanner to my digital darkroom. In early 2004, I shot my last roll of film and transitioned from the gelatin-silver process or analogue to digital photography. Most recently I upgraded my camera to the Nikon D700 with several Nikkor FX format lenses. I now use an Apple Mac Pro, Photoshop, Lightroom and other software and an iMac G5 24in Core 2 Duo with an Epson Perfection V750 Pro scanner for my digital darkroom.
While currently pursuing freelance photography assignments, I am engaged in long term projects to scan old negatives, transparencies and prints, as well as digital image restoration of damaged analogue film & prints. I am also continuing to expand my existing portfolio series and exploring new photography projects.
A few photographers I have admired and been inspired by:
Bill Brandt, Bob Carlos Clarke, Imogen Cunningham, Robert Farber, Fernand Fonssagrives, David Hamilton, Irina Ionesco, Robert Maplethorpe, Sarah Moon, Bettina Rheims, Jan Saudek, Jeanloup Sieff, Deborah Turbeville, among others.
My favourite dictionary word:
Palimpsest - pal'imp-sest, noun. 1) A manuscript or piece of writing material on which later writing has been superimposed on or effaced earlier writing to make room for later writing but of which traces remain. 1.1) Something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form.
[ Origin - Latin from Greek - 17c: palimpsēstos, palimpseston, from palin ‘again’, psēstos, psaein (contracted psen), rubbed smooth, to rub smooth. ]
An inspirational quote:
"Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it; both always, as the measure of their creation, have had to do with harmonisation of what is new with what is familiar, with the balance between novelty and synthesis, with the struggle to make partial order in total chaos."
~ Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) - Theoretical Physicist
(‘Prospects in the Arts & Sciences’, New Outlook, (May 1955), Vol 8. No. 5, p.27.)