My name is Marc Bluhm. I am a trained actor and a portrait and fine art photographer. I was born in 1987, two years before Queen released their album "The Miracle." And I remember sitting on the floor in front of my parents' sound system one day, listening to Queen's music, tears running down my cheeks, grieving the fact that Freddie Mercury wasn't with us anymore. My mom asked me why I was crying, and I said that I was sad that somebody who could make art like that had passed. It wasn't fair to me.

 This emotional connection to art and the artists creating it was what led me to move to Berlin and study acting. During a class, one of the professors wanted to know why I aspired to become an actor. I told her that my wish was to become a storyteller because I was hoping to move audiences emotionally. The same way I had been moved as an audience member, myself.

I heard an author once say, "Don't write what you know, write what you feel."  

This is how I understand art. It's feelings on a canvas, on a movie screen, on a theater stage, in a novel. And it's the same way I approach my photography. I don't make pictures because I see, but because I feel.