Marq Sutherland: Pilgrim

Pilgrim is a visual journey into one womanÆs 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 subjectùher past. Years before, Pilgrim had given him his maternal grandfatherÆs and fatherÆs photographic negatives. Sifting through thousands of images unseen for decades, Sutherland found many photographs which depicted his motherÆs life from the moment of birth, and saw how he might complete her story with love and dignityùhow they both might hold onto life as they learned to let go.

For me, this book has become both a way to honor the life of my mother, Pilgrim Sutherland, and to connect and collaborate with my grandparents, Poul de Hoffmann and Elsie Boote de Hoffmann, and my father Frank Sutherland through the images they left behind. Marq Sutherland

Marq Sutherland, born in San Diego, California, in 1974, grew up in an artistic family. In 1998 he became assistant to contemporary landscape painter Woody Gwen 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 lives and works in Bilbao, Spain.