Marcus Bleasdale
Marcus Bleasdale, a member of VII Photo, is almost notorious for
leaving the very lucrative investment banking job he had when he was
27 years old. It’s rumored he was making more than 500,000 GBP a
year. His epiphany occurred in 1998 when a fellow trader’s response to
the day’s story about the uncovering of the mass graves in the Balkans was
to worry about the impact on the value of the American dollar and German
mark. “That repulsed me,” says Bleasdale. He swapped derivatives for
cameras and after a few years earned the reputation as one of the world’s
leading documentary photographers. An outspoken advocacy
photographer, he often
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