Mark Warford

Mark Warford
Background information
Born	June 19, 1962 (1962-06-19) (age 49) Dayton, Ohio, USA
Genres	Photojournalism, Cinematography, Music and Soundtrack Production
Website	http://www.markwarfordinc.com

Mark Warford, born June 19, 1962 is an American Musician, Director, Photographer, Author and Human Rights Activist. Warford is also board chair of non-profit organization, Crude Accountability.

Career

Highly acclaimed for his worldview creative work, Mark Warford is a CLIO award-winning director and has provided creative expertise and direction to the likes of Agence France-Presse (AFP), Getty Images, Greenpeace and 'We Are The World 2'. As a special adviser, Warford was part of facilitation teams covering human rights and environmental impact issues in Kazakhstan, Russia, Mexico, New Orleans, Ecuador, Malaysia, Philippines and Canada. As a photographer, Warford has been published in the majority of the world’s major news journals – including New York Times, Washington Post, Sydney Morning Herald, The Guardian, The Times, National Geographic and the South China Morning Post.

In 2010, Warford joined Swedish artist, Leif e. Boman in creating the ‘Cry, Desert’ Project - a recorded music album and live theatrical production which is being developed utilizing 3D audio and film.

Mark Warford has written with, directed and produced notable international artists such as producer and Eurythmics co-founder, David A. Stewart, platinum-selling British soul singer, Joss Stone, and luminaries such as His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Sir Anthony Hopkins ^[1] and Harry Belafonte.

Since 2003, Mark Warford has acted as Chair of the Board for Crude Accountability,^[2] a Washington DC-based non-profit that works with local activists and citizen groups in the Caspian Sea basin to protect the region's natural environment and to ensure environmental justice for communities impacted by natural resource development.

In 2008 Warford was invited to act as a '100 Places' Climate Ambassador,^[3] joining Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Australian Minister for Environment Protection, Heritage and the Arts Peter Garrett, Rajendra Kumar Pachauri chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Danish Actress Connie Inge-Lise Nielsen.

References

1. ^ YouTube - Sir Anthony Hopkins speaks out for the whales
2. ^ CrudeAccountability - Home
3. ^ http://www.100places.com/en/ambassadors/

External links

• Official Mark Warford website
• Chicago Creative Leo Burnett
• Official Weapons of Mass Entertainment website
• Crude Accountability
• Mark Warford Joins ArcSoft Inc. as Director of NewsDX
• Major Charities Adopt Congoo(TM) News Circles(TM)

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Name	Warford, Mark
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