Mark Beehre trained as a specialist physician (MB, ChB, FRACP), and has continued to work part-time in medicine while studying and practising photography. He completed an MFA with first-class honours at Auckland University's Elam School of Fine Arts in 2014. His work sits at the intersection of documentary, portraiture and social history and is concerned with questions of identity, belonging and the lifelong quest for intimacy. Mark is the author of Men Alone - Men Together, and the artist's book Returning Home - A Place to Stand. His work has been exhibited at Photospace Gallery in Wellington, the Centre for Contemporary Photography in Melbourne, and Black Asterisk Gallery in Auckland.