Marcus Lyon

Marcus Lyon is a British photographer based in London. Examples of his work are held in the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution.[1]

Marcus Lyon
NationalityBritish
Websitemarcuslyon.com

Life and work

Since 2008 he has been chair of the Consortium for Street Children;[2] he has also sat on the board of the Somerset House Trust[3] and Leader's Quest.[4]

He has made series of photographs entitled Exodus,[5] Timeout[6] and Intersection.[7]

In 2014 Lyon he founded the Human Atlas initiative.[8] In this work his studio creates books and exhibitions that study nominated groups of people in specified geographies through the lens of portraits, app-based image-activated soundscapes and ancestral DNA maps. To date, the team has created projects on Brazil,[9] Germany,[10] and Detroit.[11]

João de Souza Lopes Filho – Somos Brasil (2018)

Publications
  • Lyon, Marcus (2016). Somos Brasil – A Human Atlas of a Nation: São Paulo, Brazil: Editora Madalena & ImageMagica. ISBN 978-85-61921-06-4.[12][13]

Exhibitions
Somos Brasil Exhibition in São Paulo, Brazil, 2017
Somos Brasil Exhibition in Pingyao, China, 2017
  • 2017 – Somos Brasil: CBB, São Paulo, Brazil[14]
  • 2017 – Somos Brasil: Pingyao, China[15]
  • 2018 – Somos Brasil, Royal Botanical Gardens: Sydney, Australia[16]
  • 2019 – Embassy of Brazil: London, United Kingdom[17]

Awards
  • 2017 – D&AD Yellow Pencil / Book Design / Culture, Art & Design Books Visualisation for ‘Somos Brasil’ book[18]
  • 2019 – British Book Awards – Best Self-published Book for ‘WE: deutschland’ book[19]
  • 2021 – Design Week Awards – Editorial Design / Social Design for ‘i.Detroit’ book[20]

References
  1. "Collections: Annual Report 2016". National Air and Space Museum. Major acquisitions in FY 2016 included ... a series of photographs by the photographic artist Marcus Lyon.
  2. https://www.eenet.org.uk/resources/docs_nondb/State_of_the_Worlds_Street_Children_Research_final_PDF_online.pdf State of the World's Street Children Research. Accessed 29 June 2021
  3. "Our Team". Somerset House. 1 September 2016. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
  4. "Marcus Lyon – Leaders' Quest". leadersquest.org. 27 August 2021. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
  5. Coppelman, Alyssa. "Strange Visions of the Hyper-Congested Megacities of the Future". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
  6. "What Could Unchecked Global Development Look Like? Apocalyptic". Bloomberg.com. 15 April 2015. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
  7. ArtPremium (17 April 2017). "Marcus Lyon : An idea leader". ArtPremium. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
  8. "Meet the extraordinary change makers from Detroit". The Independent. 5 November 2020. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
  9. "Projeto com retratos e DNA de 104 brasileiros tenta desvendar 'força' de identidade nacional". BBC News Brasil (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 29 November 2022.
  10. WE: deutschland by Marcus Lyon, retrieved 29 November 2022
  11. Hinds, Julie. "Telling the story of Detroit through 100 stunning portraits of people making a difference". Detroit Free Press. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
  12. "Somos Brasil | WorldCat.org". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
  13. Lyon, Marcus. "Unravelling Brazil's diverse DNA". the Guardian. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
  14. "Somos Brasil – Exposições". Guia Folha (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 29 November 2022.
  15. "Festival Internacional de Fotografia de Pingyao destaca obra "Somos Brasil"_portuguese.xinhuanet.com". portuguese.xinhuanet.com. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
  16. "Somos Brasil". Head On Photo Festival. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
  17. https://spectrumphoto.co.uk/somos-brasil-by-marcus-lyon Somos Brasil by Marcus Lyon. Accessed 10 June 2021
  18. "Somos Brasil | Lyon | Lyon | D&AD Awards 2017 Pencil Winner | Culture, Art & Design Books | D&AD". www.dandad.org. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
  19. British Book Awards. Accessed 15 June 2021
  20. Design Week Awards Accessed 24 June 2021
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