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Pilgrim is a visual journey into one woman´s life through the eyes of her parents, husband, and son. In her last years, Marq Sutherland returned home to help his mother through this time during which they spoke about a recurring subject-her past. Years before, Pilgrim had given him his maternal grandfather´s and father´s photographic negatives. Sifting through thousands of images unseen for decades, Marq found many photographs which depicted his mother´s life from the moment of birth, and saw how he might complete her story with love and dignity-how they both might hold onto life as they learned to let go.

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Sutherland, Marq
Marq Sutherland, born in San Diego, California, in 1974, is an American photographer and painter who grew up in an artistic family. After serving in the US Air Force, he became assistant to contemporary landscape painter Woody Gwyn and began his photographic studies with David Scheinbaum and Steve Fitch at the College of Santa Fe, graduating in 2001 with a self-designed Bachelor of Arts in photography, music and technology. He continued his studies with Jack Fulton at the San Francisco Art Institute, receiving a Master of Fine Arts in 2005. Sutherland was a finalist for the 2002 Willard Van Dyke Award, and received a SFAI Teaching Assistantship Award in 2004 and a Helen Wurlitzer Foundation Fellowship in 2008. He now lives and works in Bilbao, Spain.

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