Thanks for dropping by.

My name is Mark McGuire. I was born in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada in 1956. I have degrees in Architecture (B. Env. Studies, University of Waterloo), Fine Art (B. A., University of Guelph), Information Science (Masters, University of Otago), and Media Studies (Ph.D., University of Auckland).

I worked as a graphic designer and consultant in my own small Toronto-based design company (Mediatrix Inc.) for 10 years. In 1993, I moved to Dunedin, New Zealand, a beautiful small city near the bottom of the South Island of a small country in the Southern Hemisphere on the other side of the world. My partner, Rochelle Simmons, taught in the English Department at the University of Otago for 30 years and I was employed as a design academic at the same University for 25 years until 2018.

I became more active as a photographer after leaving the university, although I still do other things. We have two sons who have recently completed their university studies in Auckland, and two Tonkinese cats who have never been to university and don’t even have a high school diploma.