MARC EPSTEIN

A native of Charleston, SC, Marc purchased his first camera in the late 1960's from a pawnshop in downtown Charleston. Starting college at the Baptist College of Charleston (now Southeastern University) as an Art major, Marc decided to complete a Bachelor of Science degree in Wildlife and Coastal Zone Management through the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Marc also studied photography and art while in Amherst and in 1976 he began a photographic documentary of long-term change in wildlife habitat, coastal shoreline, and urban development on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, locating more than 100 archival photographs taken between ca.1860 and 1900. This photographic documentary took 4 years to complete. Part of the report was published in 1979 and was later published in 1986 by the Northeast Section of the Wildlife Society.

Continuing to write and publish photography while pursuing a Master of Science degree in Wildlife Biology at the University of Maryland/Frostburg State College, he later studied bird photography with Art Morris (Birds as Art) and, Art Photography with Lewis Kemper and Cher-Threinen Pendarvis at the Palm Beach Photographic Center. Marc has been a professionally Certified Wildlife Biologist for 25 years and currently is a Senior Fish and Wildlife Biologist for the US Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Wildlife Refuge System.

His writing and photography was first published in 1980 by Cape Cod Life magazine on Striped Bass Fishing on Nantucket Island. He is credited with a first-ever published photo and article of a very tiny and rare flower called a Pygmy Pipe. It was the first time the plant had been seen in over 100 years (Florida Wildlife Magazine).

Spending literally hours in swamps and in insect infested marshes, he uses camouflaged blinds and knowledge of animal behavior to capture his unique pictures. With an enchanting reverence, his natural landscape scenes are like watercolor art on film. His photography is professionally represented by two commercial stock photography agencies: DRK Photo and Visuals Unlimited Photographic Stock Agencies.

Characteristic of Marc's work is a stubborn attention to peak moments of intense natural lighting and an unusual personal patience, both which combine to create interesting, unique, special-moment compositions. Marc’s images capture a sense of place and possess a fresh, timeless quality and many hang in fine art galleries across the southeastern US.

National Magazine Covers and Photos appear on:

South Carolina Wildlife, Florida Wildlife, Sports Afield,, Field and Stream, Outdoor Life, Ducks Unlimited, Birders World,

Florida Sportsman, Salt Water Sportsman, Sport Fishing Magazine, Audubon, National Wildlife, Coastal Living Magazine,

Space Coast Living, and US Fish & Wildlife Service

Exclusively represented in Charleston by Charles II Art Gallery