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Mark Warford, is an American author, photographer, director, producer, and composer.
Mark Warford | |
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| Genres | writer, author, director, photojournalist, producer, composer |
Mark Warford, is an American author, photographer, director, producer, and composer.
Highly acclaimed for his worldview creative work, Warford is a CLIO Award-winning photographer, director, producer, and author. Warford has also directed creative and strategic operations for the likes of Agence France-Presse (AFP), Getty Images, and 'We Are The World'.
Warford has written with, directed and produced notable international artists such as Eurythmics co-founder David A. Stewart, platinum-selling British soul singer Joss Stone, and collaborated with the Dalai Lama and Harry Belafonte.
Warford teamed with Sir Anthony Hopkins to produce the CLIO Award-winning spot, ACT. [1] Written and directed by Warford, the 60-second spot deals with the plight of whales being hunted for scientific purposes.
Ervin Shane and The Sunshine Motel [2] was published, February 2023 by Cry Desert Books. The novel is a poignant tale of origins and endings told in the plain-speak of a man tired of living a hand-to-mouth existence in the racist, post-WWII south.
Spaceman Spiritus [3] was published, March 2022 by Cry Desert Books. The novel is a sensitive, time-condensing, science-fiction story set concurrently on Earth and within an unidentified galaxy. The narrative is based upon the exploits of Spiritus, Shepard, Peel, and two stray labradors, Martha and Pup. United by their instinctual journeys, each struggles with a unique perception of the melancholy associated with the long journey home.
Supermassive Superstar [4] was published, April 2020 by Cry Desert Books. Set primarily in London, New York and the southwest USA in 1978, the novel is a rock ’n roll allegory fueled by an emotive, time-traveling mystery. Set against the turbulent issues of the time, the story introduces wayward musician, Beecher Stowe, and his band. United in their desire for fame and fortune, they fall under the spell of a reclusive and ageless muse. With her sun-bleached hair and her sun-shaded eyes and her Bardot lips, she journeys in the service of a man for whom the ravages of time hold no regard; a man that has wandered the earth, stranded in a parallel dimension for centuries.
The debut novel of a continuing series, Sky Blue Sky [5] was published, February 2016 by Cry Desert Books. The action/adventure series introduces the protagonist, anti-hero Thomas Edward Muir, and is told in a lean, hard, athletic narrative prose that uniquely bridges the void between general fiction and conventional literary works.
The sequel to Sky Blue Sky [6] in the continuing series, Says Who? [7] was published January 2018 by Cry Desert Books.
On March 1, 2015, the original script (including song lyrics) for the international cross-media project, A Voyage For Soldier Miles [8] was published by Cry Desert Music Publishing, Inc.
Beginning in 2011, Warford began production on the dramatized audio production, 'A Voyage For Soldier Miles'. Renowned Swedish artist, Leif e. Boman is also credited as a contributor to the soundtrack. [9]
In 2008 Warford was elected as a 100 Places Global Climate Ambassador, joining Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Australian Minister for Environment Protection, Heritage and the Arts Peter Garrett, Rajendra Kumar Pachauri chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Danish Actress Connie Inge-Lise Nielsen.
From 2004 to 2006, Warford steered the creative direction and production of Project Thin Ice, a multi-year, multi-national initiative to address the mounting impact of climate change. Warford led the strategic operations and media coverage for two successive attempts by explorers Lonnie Dupre and Eric Larsen to cross the Arctic Ocean in summer. The event was successfully completed in July 2006.
From 2003 to 2012, Warford acted as chair of the Board of Crude Accountability, a Washington DC–based non-profit working primarily in the Caspian Sea basin to protect the region's natural environment and to ensure environmental justice for communities impacted by natural resource development.
From 2000 to 2007, Warford directed media teams covering global news issues in Kazakhstan, Russia, Mexico, United States, Ecuador, Malaysia, Philippines, and Canada, amongst other locations. As a photographer, Warford has been published in all of the world’s major news journals, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Sydney Morning Herald, The Guardian, The Times, National Geographic and the South China Morning Post.
In 1998, Warford accepted the role of managing editor for Getty Images.
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