The Mystery of Everything
In the Fall of 2024 I was offered a one person show at the Chung 24 Gallery in San Francisco. Gallery owner, Diane Chung, wanted to present an exhibit of my “quirky” (her word) photographs, and asked Michael Starkman: photographer, graphic designer, and long time friend, to curate the show. Michael sifted through hundreds of my images to make his selection, and when he had assembled the exhibit he and Diane together came up with the title, The Mystery of Everything. On hearing the name they had given the show, I realized that those were the perfect words that described my ultimate motivation for making photographs. The world keeps presenting itself in ways that capture my attention, and since picking up the camera in the 1960s, I’ve felt compelled to acknowledge and document this.
Alongside Mark Citret’s exquisite photographs of architecture, forests shrouded in fog, and sweeping ocean vistas is another sprawling body of work — quirky, funny, more intimate, and less often seen. Strange juxtapositions, unlikely pairings, fleeting instants of light and shade reveal marvels in the mundane. For over five decades Mark has roamed, eyes open and camera ready to render foibles, happenstance, and the intrinsic mystery of everything. ~from Michael Starkman’s Curator’s Statement
(Once you’ve clicked on one to view the photos at full size, hovering the cursor over the photo will reveal the title, but leaving it there will crop the bottom edge.)
