Mark Smith has been making photographs since the late 1970s. His work has appeared in many national and international publications plus galleries. Some of his favourite projects have been the Cake Poster Collective, the book Once Removed (on tour with Neil Finn), Person, Place and Animal, a solo show at Artis Gallery, Auckland and Green Man with Deborah Smith and John Reynolds at the Black Barn Gallery, Havelock North. In 2018 he started an ongoing collaborative project with Felicity Jones called Case Studies. Their main interest has been the complex impact of the Wardian Case - the sealed container, not unlike a miniature glasshouse, used to transport flora across continents in the service of empire and commerce. He lives in Auckland with his family.