ENTRY DESCRIPTION
"Ghost in a shell" explores the boundaries of identity between living subjects and their gender, and artificial environments. My subjects are nude and stripped from their material sources of identity so that they interact at their most basic, human and animal level. What become magnified are their gender and the attitude in which the subjects explore his or her surroundings. Some interact boldly, others playfully, while still some others are hesitant in the unfamiliar and enclosed spaces. In a multiple layered process the subjects are photographed and then manipulated through so that they start to merge visually into their surrounds as they did during their own exploration of the spaces. Their identities become intertwined and finite, as do their sexualities through the montage of different opposite gendered subjects. Human life is fleeting. We leave traces in homes we create, but the homes also become abandon at one point and can eventually disappear.

AUTHOR
Born in Cologne, Germany, Mark Roemisch is an award winning portrait and stage photographer, based in Boston. His work has been shown in publications as Elle, Harper's Bazaar, inhabitat New York and Spiegel online.
While working for many years as a professional actor on theater stages in Germany and the US, he pursued his passion to narrate other people’s stories. Moving behind the camera opened the range of artistic potential for him to create his visions and own narrations from a different, more observing angle.

His personal work is fueled by a love of the human spirit, and the search of a single moment that condenses a variety of possible stories in one final piece. Mark’s images have been exhibited in the US, Germany and Japan.


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