NEWS:
2024
‘Focus’ is shortlisted for the BPA’s Mobile Photography Awards 2024
‘My Trip to Mars’ is shortlisted for exhibition at Athens Photo Festival
‘My Trip to Mars’ exhibition at Finch Gallery & Cafe in London
2023
AUTO PHOTO Awards 2023 – THE TOP 100, Shutterhub
Shutter Hub OPEN 23/24 Art at the ARB, University of Cambridge
TO THE SEA Les Alizes, Saint Gilles Croix de Vie, France Exhibition
Der Greif – Guest Room: David Campany Online exhibition and Award
Night Moods Online exhibition Shutterhub
2022
AUTO PHOTO Awards 2022 – Highly Commended Shutterhub
2020
The Spiritual Exercises Online Exhibition
Cityscapes, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, group show
2019
‘Who are you?’ Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver
I am very excited to have an interview about Faces of Mustang, with Cornelia Hummel (who has done her own Mustang project) on the webpage of a french magazine called Roaditude. All thanks go to her for getting in touch, making this happen and for translating the English interview into a French one.
I’ve put together a new mini portfolio showcasing selected work
We Mostly Consist of Memories is part of the Shutter Hub/ Art at the Arb exhibition ‘Everything I ever learned’ at Art at the ARB, University of Cambridge until 3 May 2019
My portrait of Richard Williams is selected to be part of a group show at Blank Wall Gallery in Athens
March 2019
Buffalo’s will be part of a group show at Blank Wall Gallery in Athens
December 2018
The Undertaker part of my current project about a seventh generation family business of funeral directors is shortlisted for the Fix Photo Awards
November 2018
Steve the Hat made the final selection for the Portrait Salon exhibit and publication.
October 2018
I was shortlisted for the Photobox Instagram Photography Awards September 2018
Very happy to be part of the Ngorongoro II groupshow in Berlin part of the Artist Weekend showing alongside some great international artists, if you are in Berlin make sure to drop in.
Faces of Mustang to be on show at CSM Window Gallery. The exhibition is open from 9:00 – 22:00 , Monday to Sunday 8th August – 5th September 2017 at the CSM Window Gallery, Central Saint Martins, Granary Building, 1 Granary Square, King’s Cross, London N1C 4AA
Some excerpts from the interviews are on show as well and can be listened to on soundcloud.
And the search for funding a second leg of the project to cover all the eastern states is on. If you are interested in getting involved please get in touch. August 2017
FORD Social website features an article on the Faces of Mustang project. August 2016
FACES OF MUSTANG, is currently on the road follow my progress on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter. July 2016
I am currently working on FACES OF MUSTANG a project aiming to connect with the people who own Ford Mustang’s across the US, take their portraits alongside the iconic car and hear what story they have to share.
Please sign up to the online platforms I have set up:
https://www.facebook.com/facesofmustang/
https://www.instagram.com/facesofmustang/
https://twitter.com/FacesofMustang
Some of my work was shown as part of 125 LIVE Magazines annual show and at the Portrait Salon in October 2015. The Portrait Salon Show travelled on to Tokyo where it was on display in February 2016.
My work on show in London from the 13 August – 15 September 2014 at the Dreamspace Gallery – address and details
An image of mine was used as starting point for writers on Visual Verse.
January 2014 Current Exhibition: Last night on Congress… running until 28 February in London, at Haggerston Espresso Room, 13 Downham Road, London, N1 5AA. Click for more details.
Following my Detroit to LA trip partially made possible with the support of Team Detroit/Ford Motors I have put together a 30 page publication illustrating the journey, the people, the landscape and the Ford Escape/Kuga I was driving.
Five of my images are available as digital editions on Sedition. Take a look if you need something to fill the void your screen is leaving when it’s off.
One of my images was handpicked by Emma Bowkett Emma Bowkett, Photo Editor of FT Magazine for this FEATURESHOT Group Show.
Here is a link to the 20 page book I put together following the trip with the Ford Explorer.
April 2012 – I currently have some work on show at Schlifka | Molina arte contemporáneo in Buenos Aires, Argentina
April 2012 – I am happy to say that one of my pictures was featured in this collection on featureshoot. http://www.featureshoot.com/
I am having an exhibition at the Aubin & Wills store in Notting Hill, London. I will be showing 6 of my photographs printed up large and looking good enough to develop an urge to go travelling.
The show will run from the 22 July until 21 August 2011
Mon – Sat 10am – 6pm
Sun 11pm – 6pm
Location: Aubin & Wills – 188 Westbourne Grove – London W11 2RH – Tel: 0207 243 5830
Ford posted the pictures I shot on their Ford Explorer Facebook page FORD EXPLORER 2011
My recent photobook ‘But where are all the people‘ has been selected as an Honorable Mention in the Photography Book Now International Juried Competition.
The competition was judged by: Darius Himes (Lead Judge, Radius Books, Santa Fe, NM), Monica Allende (Photo Editor, London Sunday Times), Judith Puckett-Rinella (T: The New York Times Style Magazine), Martin Parr (Photographer), Lesley A. Martin (Aperture Foundation), David Fahey (Fahey/Klein Gallery), Michael Mack (Steidl/Mack Publishing) Susan Meiselas (Photographer) and Brian Smith (Photographer).
A full preview can be had at the following link
Honorable mentions.
Here are some links to folios of my work
http://www.artlyst.com/Marcus.Bastel
http://www.behance.net/MarcusBastel
I have put together a book titled But where are all the people.
More of my pictures can be seen on my Facebook page