As well as general work around varying themes and aside from specific commercial engagements I also have several projects of my own, some are ongoing, some are revisited every few years and some I’ve not done much about at all!
Anyone can apply to be involved in any of my projects and anyone suitable will be considered.
The ‘Bound’ series (only two books based on London so far but in the future it may be possible to cover other major cities / areas) is a study of people in rope bondage, in their own homes. Originally conceived as an antidote to the sterile studio environment in which I found myself working when I first moved to London I went out and about photographing people very simply and in their own personal environments.
FacelessLadies.com is a major ongoing project in it’s own right, this introduces anonymity to the genre of people-photography thus removing the ingredients normally used to communicate with other people and allowing a free and anonymous communication through the physicality only.
Bodies is a new project I’ll be starting in late 2010.
Mark Varley is a professional photographer based in London specialising in fine-art, event, landscape, wildlife, fetish (including shibari and rope bondage), artistic, nude & erotica photography.