The project "Mark: Subject, Object, Collaborator, Not Just Another Green Pepper" began 8 years ago when I was living in Palm Springs. I met Mark at a gay art salon. The first portrait of Mark in the book is the first portrait I shot of him, and still one of the finest images of HIM. I remember that photo shoot because it was the time that I discovered through him that he suffered from HIV related dementia and bipolar disorder. Many of the images involve...