NAME: angela marklew
BIRTH PLACE: ottawa, ontario
BIRTH DATE: 8.3.80
BIOGRAPHY
A Canadian, Angela is a photographer that lives in Venice Beach, California and has driven from one end of the continent to the other three times in one year. She once flipped her car ten times and used to test explosives for the government.
Exposed to the photographic process in her teens she quickly became personally invested in the artistic opportunities it provided. However, as with most creative instructions offered in public school this one was quickly taken from her before she was fully able to realize her vision. The experience lingered, however, and she used the knowledge she acquired to concentrate herself in something that was more accessible: chemistry. As time went on, she once again re-immersed herself in photography, now using her knowledge in chemicals as a foundation for her artistic endeavors.
Angela began immersing herself in the margins of reality and exploring places and people that existed in a place beyond the present time. This practice would open new parts of herself and the world around her. The resulting images revealed unbelievable landscapes, buildings, and objects, telling a sort of incomplete narrative that leaves many gaps for the viewer to fill themselves.
Bored of blowing things up combined with a growing sense that Canada and her winters was not the sort of discomfort Angela preferred, she accepted an opportunity to relocate to Los Angeles, California and would almost immediately begin a massive photographic study of forgotten areas in the American Southwest. Risking violent encounters in Nevada, dehydration in New Mexico, even becoming the lone victim in a near fatal car accident, there are virtually no limits to what she will face when she has images to capture and can commonly be found scaling broken ladders, jumping fences and wading in swamps to realize creative pursuits.
