The human body bears a strange resemblance to the ‘world’. It is often worked so hard that its interior becomes filled with piles of waste and remnants. We, humans, rarely pay attention to it until the organs fail and manifest their symptoms. Simon Mark’s photography might be telling us something about these concepts.

Human Materials is more than just a collection of common street or minimalist photography that focuses only on visuals. Mark creates a representation of these themes, as if we are observing the components of the human body through the materials and surfaces of the human-built world.

The images show order, solidity, and lightness, appearing like a beautiful display of outer flesh. However, when the inner side is revealed, we find the chaos of production and the remnants of consumption. Both sides speak to the enduring relationship between humanity and the world through a series of photographs that serve as a sharp metaphor for the act of creation and the remnants left in its wake.