MARK GRIFFITHS

Mark is a freelance photographer based in Cardiff, U.K. 

He graduated in 2013 with a degree in photojournalism from the university of Wales/ Trinity St David and an MA in documentary photography at USW in 2022. 

His work has been widely featured and exhibited throughout the world including London’s Mall galleries and the DNG gallery in Los Angeles. He has been selected for a number of awards and bursaries. More notably he was selected as one of the winners at the Antiparos photo festival for his acclaimed work ‘A swim into the wild’ and received a winning placement in the professional photo essay category at the Moscow international photography awards for his work-documenting children affected by the Chernobyl disaster. 

He receives regular commissions for channel 4, the telegraph magazine, the smith journal, the guardian, the financial times, vice and the BBC among others and has worked on a number of commercial and advertorial campaigns for the national lottery and Disney.

His personal work visually investigates a broad of topics ranging from social, environmental, historical and political narratives in order to understand the complexities of these stories and educate himself and others about the importance of documenting matters close to the heart.