133rd Ave at Cross Bay Blvd by aspiring HS Mark Marchesi

For this round of HHS!, photographer Mark Marchesi submitted from his series The Town and the City. The work is cinematic in both its scale and suspense; I think of Gregory Crewdson minus all the bells and whistles. These images are dramatic and straight out of a thriller favorite without feeling contrived or theatrical––not to mention they’re just good looking photographs. Mark says on the series:

It is inspired by Jack Kerouac’s classic literary work which is set in a dying Massachusetts mill town. The novel stuck a chord and filled me with nostalgia for a time when New England mill towns thrived and the word “home” was not just a term used by developers to sell more houses.

Mark has been working on this series for the past three years and there is an immense amount of worthy work on his newly updated website. Keep it up Mark!

It’s Friday and the weather is turning around––the perfect time to enter the Spring Edition of Hey, Hot Shot!

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