Marc Seguin
Marc Séguin is a French Canadian painter and novelist whose work is held in several important collections. He splits his time between his home in Montréal, Québec, and his Brooklyn, New York studio. Touching on themes of the politically backward, the environmentally compromised and the socially divided, his work reveals deeper truths about the nature of humanity through images that are not only thought-provoking but beautifully elegiac.
Since 2000, the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec have all acquired major works by Marc Séguin. His prints and paintings can be found in numerous Canadian corporate collections and those of major private Canadian and American collectors. To date, Marc Séguin has held more than 20 solo shows and participated in many more group exhibitions and art fairs around the world, including Madrid, Barcelona, Venice, Berlin, Cologne, New York, Miami, Chicago, Brussels, and Namur.
Marc Séguin has also published 4 critically acclaimed fiction novels – La foi du braconnier, Hollywood, Nord Alice, and Jenny Sauro. He also directed and produced a feature film, Stealing Alice, and directed a documentary entitled The State of the Farm.
3 words to describe Nature?
A Resilient & Beautiful Thing
3 things Nature taught you?
Patience
Violence
Creativity
3 most treasured Nature spots?
The ocean
The island I live on
Anywhere in the wind
When you look at the ocean, it makes you feel...?
Introspective
When you see a forest, it makes you feel...?
Human, impaired and perfect
When you see a volcano, it makes you feel...?
Like being on a spaceship made of rock
When you see a sunrise or sunset, it makes you feel...?
Like time has passed again
When you hear thunder, it makes you feel...?
Unfit to live in nature. It also means I gotta get out of the river and stop fishing for a while.
When you hear the wind howling, it makes you feel...?
Powerful forces can be invisible. And it draws a smile. Every time.
Are you an Ocean, Mountain, Forest, or Desert person?
Anywhere, as long as it remains wild and not impacted by us.
On a scale of 1 to 10, how important is Nature to your well-being?
10
Share with us a childhood nature memory?
Playing and shaping my child’s world with mud.
Robert Clark
ROBERT CLARK is a freelance photographer based in New York City, working with the world's leading magazines, publishers and cutting edge advertising campaigns, as well as the author of four monographs: EvolutionA Visual Record, Feathers Displays of Brilliant Plumage, First Down Houston A Year with the Houston Texans and Image America - the first photography book shot solely with a cellphone camera. During his twenty-year association with National Geographic, Clark has photographed more than 40 stories. His cover article "Was Darwin Wrong?" helped National Geographic garner a National Magazine award in 2005. Early in his career, Clark documented the lives of high school football players for the book Friday Night Lights. In 2003, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston brought Clark back to Texas to capture the first year of the new NFL team, the Houston Texans. Clark recently directed the short film "8 Seconds" as part of an advertorial campaign for Russell Athletic. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter, and is the owner of Ten Ton Studio in the Brooklyn Navy Yards. He can be followed on Instagram.
3 things Nature taught you?
Patience
The awesome power of geological evolution
How fragile it all is when we ignore it
3 most treasured Nature spots?
Joshua Tree
The Kluane National Park, Canada
The Andes, above the Sacred Valley
When you look at the ocean, it makes you feel...?
Full of possibilities
When you see a forest, it makes you feel...?
I find forests spooky.
When you see a volcano, it makes you feel...?
I repelled into Vesuvio for a National Geographic story and it made me feel the power of Nature at awe of the amount of force that was released in the blasts from the volcano.
When you see a sunrise or sunset, it makes you feel...?
I think about good light for photography, and either way it is a new beginning.
When you hear thunder, it makes you feel...?
Reminds me of my childhood in Western Kansas.
When you hear the wind howling, it makes you feel...?
Running in Western Kansas, it is always windy in my home town.
Are you an Ocean, Mountain, Forest, or Desert person?
l love the desert.
On a scale of 1 to 10, how important is Nature to your well-being?
Increasingly more important after living in Brooklyn for so long.
Share with us a childhood nature memory?
My home was on the Monarch butterfly migration route, I remember going to a creek in a park and sitting down and having the butterflies cover me from head to toe.