Photographer Marius Gabriel Sipa has been in love with photography ever since receiving an old 3MIOG medium format camera, an old relic of the Soviet Russian era, on his 10th birthday.

Marius says, “It was a junky plastic camera with a plastic lens, but it was mine and that’s all I cared about. Over the next few years I photographed everything with it, including landscapes, cars, trains, people, communist soldiers, old buildings, castles, my grandparents, life and death of friends and family, and some things I probably shouldn’t have photographed.”

Most of those photos were lost one by one over the years through the many times Marius’ family moved from his birthplace Oradea, Romania, to an immigrant camp in Rome, Italy, to  Los Angeles  with several moves around  Orange County to eventual settlement in Portland, Oregon.

Self-trained through reading every photography book and magazine he could get his hands on, and through studying the works of famous photographers like Sebastiao Salgado, James Natchway, Galen Rowell, Brassai, Edward Weston, and of course the master of tonality, Ansel Adams. Additional formal training rounded out Marius’ love of the art.

In recent years Marius has produced work in Cover Art, Portraits, Concert Photography, and product photography for companies like designer Jade Howe and musicians such as rock band One Bullet Resolution, country-rock band Citizen Joe, and jazz/Motown artist Keni St. Lewis. His website is www.sipaphoto.com.

 

 

 

 

   
 

 

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