Today we’d like to introduce you to Mark Khan.
Mark, let’s start with your story. We’d love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so far.
I am a photographer and designer from Minneapolis, MN. During my freshman year of college, I started to customize clothes through dying and bleaching them in my dorm room and slowly began to sell these online. Through working on my clothing line Universal Rejects I started to pick up photography because I had a specific vision for my brand that I felt wasn’t getting shown. Through my work as a photographer, I have been able to have my work showcased on the Vogue Italia website through a portfolio with them. In 2019 I released my first self-published photography book titled “In My Mind” which is on its way to selling out a second time. A new project that I am working this year is a clothing collection titled “Teenage Liberation” that will be dropping in the summer of 2020.
We’re always bombarded by how great it is to pursue your passion, etc – but we’ve spoken with enough people to know that it’s not always easy. Overall, would you say things have been easy for you?
The road hasn’t been smooth for me and I have run into multiple but most of them deal with not knowing things and not having any mentors at the beginning of my career to help me with things. So this leads to me to having to find the determination within myself to find answers to questions like how to manufacture clothes to how to market yourself on my own.
We’d love to hear more about your business.
As a photographer, I would say that I specialize in Editorial and Portrait Style photos. I would say that the work that I am more known for would be my editorial or highbrow works, as some have said because they tell a story. With my work, I always try to make sure that there is a story behind it or one that can come from it. I would say that the proudest moment of my career so far would be when I had the launching event for my book “In My Mind’ and I was able to see first-hand people’s reactions to my work.
What were you like growing up?
I would say growing up, I was very quiet and to myself, I was always in my head and interested in things so I was constantly observing things to see how they worked.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.mark-khan.com
- Email: mark@mark-khan.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iam_markkhan/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/iam_MarkKhan
- Other: https://www.instagram.com/universalrejects/
Image Credit:
Sololiya Baisa (Stylist)
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