Mark Denton

Who is Mark Denton?

Mark Denton is a British landscape photographer working mostly in the North of England. He is best known for using a Fujifilm panoramic film camera and producing images using the 6×17 film format.

Mark Denton was born in Lincoln in 1971 but moved to Sunderland, North East England at the age of three, living there until studying at university. He graduated in humanities from the University of Humberside in 1994 and worked in various roles for UK booksellers Waterstone's including a spell as manager of the branch in Scarborough.

Mark Denton's photographic career began with experiments using a 35mm in his garden in Hunmanby, North Yorkshire, but it was a meeting and ensuing friendship with the landscape photographer Joe Cornish that inspired the move to photographing the countryside in larger formats. Choosing the panoramic photography format favoured by Scottish photographer Colin Prior, he initially set out on a project to record the Yorkshire coast. After producing his own range of postcards the project eventually became a book entitled The Yorkshire Coast published by Frances Lincoln in 2006 including texts written by local author Graham Taylor.