Mark Ludak is based in Lambertville, New Jersey, and works as an artist and professor of photography.

Since 2006, Ludak has been on the faculty at Monmouth University, where he is a Specialist Professor of Photography and coordinates the studio art concentration in photography. He has served as an adjunct professor at Hunter College, San Francisco State University, and the Printmaking Center of New Jersey. He received an MFA from Hunter College where he studied with Roy DeCarava and Mark Feldstein.

Ludak is a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellow and a three-time selection for the New Jersey State Arts Annual Exhibition. His work has been included in exhibitions at the New Jersey State Museum, the Morris Museum, the Wheaton Center for the Arts, the University of LaVerne, the University of the Arts, the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, the Arts Council of Princeton at the Princeton Public Library, Monmouth University and the Arts Council of Atlantic Highlands. He has received grants from the NJSCA|Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, the Puffin Foundation, The Urban Coast Institute, and two Research and Creativity Grants from Monmouth University.

He has completed commissions and assignments for clients including Apple, The New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Johnson & Johnson, The Philadelphia Daily News, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Environmental Defense Fund, The Solebury Land Conservancy, Amnesty International, and many others. He recently completed multiple commissions concerning healthcare in Rwanda and Vietnam for non-governmental organizations.