Marc Silber

Marc Silber is a photographer and consultant, living on the San Francisco Peninsula.

Statement

My love of in photography began when I was in grade school and grew as a means of telling visual stories. As the etymology of photography is “light writing” I find this means of writing to be my favorite form of expression.

I remember when I was seven cherishing my Kodak Brownie and drug store prints—yet the thrill of capturing images has stayed with me ever since. When I was in the 7th grade I learned the magic of the darkroom and spent hours in the tiny school darkroom. I was amazed to find that I could take my vision from "outside" and bring it to life in the darkroom. My interest continued to expand and grow with the subject over these many years. Taking pictures was such a way of life for me that wherever I traveled I always had my Lieca, Nikon or Rolliflex hung about my neck.

I have traveled extensively and have photographed my journeys. "Pictures that tell a story is what I aim for, and I am always pleased when I get this feedback."

Recently published about Silber: “Marc Silber has been a professional photographer for 40 years whose images have left a durable impression. Silber studied photography at the San Francisco Art Institute, but this was where he put polish on his already prolific and memorable work. The startling fact is that he began selling and publishing his work when he was only 13. Some of his most astonishing and memorable shots shown in his exhibit are from that era. Silber’s exhibition covers a full range from action shots, to candid portraits to landscapes. His series of shots from the Sierra Madre, Mexico gives us a rare glimpse into the remote mountain region above Mazatlan, days by jeep and foot. He tells of the people being so grateful for the medical help that his project brought that he was allowed to photograph and capture their life in a completely intimate manner.

“As one visitor to the exhibition put it, “These are beautiful photos and really evocative... even those which depict places I've never been to. I can see your affinity to Ansel Adams…”

“Silber’s exhibit is natural and refreshingly void of the hyperbole we have seen encroach on photography in our digital age. His work seems as though he were having a causal conversation and somehow managed to record his own impression without the artificial use of a camera. When we asked him about this Silber laughed and said, “‘isn’t that the whole point of photography?’”