About the Author

Marq Sutherland, born in San Diego, California, in 1974, grew up in an artistic family. In 1998 he became assistant to contemporary landscape painter Woody Gwen and began his photographic studies with David Scheinbaum and Steve Fitch at the College of Santa Fe, graduating in 2001 with a self-designed Bachelor of Arts in photography, music and technology. He continued his studies with Jack Fulton at the San Francisco Art Institute receiving a Master of Fine Arts in 2005. Sutherland was a finalist for the 2002 Willard Van Dyke Award, and received a SFAI Teaching Assistantship Award in 2004 and a Helen Wurlitzer Foundation Fellowship in 2008.He lives and works in Bilbao, Spain.