"In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality."
--ALFRED STIEGLITZ (1864--1946)
The world opened up to Mark Altman at age sixteen--for this is when he discovered photography. Altman began to develop a keen eye for the human condition and capturing images while living on a Kibbutz in northern Israel. He was away from home, enjoying his first adventures as a young adult, and savoring newfound freedom to explore his personal interests. Living with an adoptive second family, he remembers the first time that his "dad" showed him the beautiful black and white prints of an Olympus Pen FT, a half frame camera with interchangeable lenses. The sight of this camera and the beauty Mark saw in those black and white prints, planted the first seeds of what was to become his life's calling.
Born in Haifa, Israel to a Polish heritage, Altman now resides in the Brooklyn, NY neighborhood of Williamsburg. He has traveled the globe in search of adventure and photographic subjects. Constantly in pursuit of the perfect image and perspective of nature and of the human experience, his quest has taken him across the United States, to the Far East, Southeast Asia,
