Marcus Tate was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1957.After travelling through France and Northern Spain with his father to Santiago de Compostela he decided to study photography at London College Printing, graduating 1990 BA Hons Photography.

Marcus Tate has been observing and photographing people and places in everyday situations for over 20 years. He has a unique ability to capture the honesty, mood and essence of his subject in both naturalistic and more composed settings. He has the gift to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary

Marcus’ unobtrusive photographic style means he is regularly commissioned to shoot on-set and behind the scenes for film and TV.  He works at Pinewood and Elstree Film Studios and has undertaken shoots for major terrestrial and satellite TV channels including BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5.  His images have been used editorially in a wide range of programmes, for publicity campaigns and published in books to compliment TV series.

Marcus is regularly commissioned by a wide range of prestigious clients. In all corporate work he demonstrates a natural understanding of the needs of the commercial world, delivering powerful, striking, beautiful and, above all, memorable images often with a twist.  His photographs are used to set the tone for corporate literature, in-house publications, advertising material and corporate films.

An acclaimed and award winning photographer Marcus has exhibited throughout Britain and Europe. From the National Gallery, London to the Peter and Paul Fortress, St Petersburg. His work is characterised by his wry and inventive take on the mundane and everyday images that surround us.

His current on-going project ‘Life in Language’ is an exploration of ‘grave words’. With this project Marcus has refined his work to a single aesthetic. Collaborating with renowned international writers and composers, Marcus aims to produce a piece of work that transcends boundaries and embraces the human condition through language and our most basic need to communicate.