Mark Vitaris | Áísínai'pi / A Visual Quest Book

Artist: Mark Vitaris

Áísínai'pi, A Visual Quest, is Mark's third and most recent offering of photography of the northern Great Plains. It focuses on Áísínai’pi/Writing-on-Stone UNESCO World Heritage Site. Adhering to the standard set with my previous books, Áísínai’pi will be my first self-published book. It is currently in production at Friesens Printing, in Manitoba, Canada. Like its predecessors, Áísínai’pi explores the landscape and uses narrative to guide the reader. Unlike the others, it is an intimate exposé of a multi-decade relationship that I have shared with this mystical landscape.


About the Artist:

The eye is an inveterate collector. ~ Walker Evans

The art of photographer, media producer, and mixed media artist Mark Vitaris is sweeping in style and scope. Through his art, he preserves that which is ephemeral. He believes there is an intimate connection between the forms his art takes and the circumstances from which it derives.

For much of his professional and artistic career, location photography has been his chosen métier. His work is project-based, honed from decades of professional assignments employing natural light and conditions to interpret visual concepts.

Vitaris earned a B.A. in Communications, from the University of Ottawa (Canada). His award winning work has been widely exhibited and is included in private and public collections provincially, nationally, and internationally. 

He resides in Calgary, Alberta.