At the weekend I had the pleasure of joining the GBR sailing team at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy in Dorset.
It was an amazing day and the team were working hard in preparation for the 2012 Olympics.
This collaborative slide show with Journalist Jina Moore was a commissioned by the global post to commemorate the anniversary of Rwanda’s 1994 Genocide.
I’ll be exhibiting in LA from the 2nd to the 28th of April, come and check it out!
Work from my African assignments will be on show: Police, Burundi
Allegations of corruption demonize the police in Burundi, who are often not paid for months at a time.
and below: Adolph, Rwandan Genocide survivor and memorial guide During the Rwanda Genocide 24,000 people were murdered in this church. A child at the time, Adolph survived by hiding under the bodies of his family.
‘Skin‘
A ‘Pop-Up’ exhbition will be showing at the Sam Scorer Gallery, 5 Drury Lane Lincoln,for one week only!
Wednesday 23/02 – Wednesday 02/03
10am – 4pm everyday (Saturday open till 5pm)
‘ll be exhibiting in this show, feel free to come along and check it out! There’ll be work from my recent collaboration with designer Samantha Barker + a few surprises!
Stylist and textile designer Samantha Barker has been constructing these natural textiles made from materials ranging from alpaca to seaweed, she breaks down the original fibers and reconstructs them into new materials.
The Textiles are designed to embody the health benefits of the original material and convey these to the wearer. Sam is particularly interested in the relationship between the textiles and the skin of the wearer, mimicking the epidermis.
Amazing model and artist Rebecca Sampson worked with us on the project.
Recently an image I took of children in prison was selected for the Taylor Wessing Portrait prize exhibition, African prisons have been a subject I can’t seem to keep away from, and I thought it was about time these images got their own post. Some of these images are also in the galleries on the main website: martinandmartin.eu/pictures
A strange specialization for me has been creating super macro images of diamonds, photographing these precious stones was harder than I thought it would be!
The magnification need is beyond normal macro capabilities so a bellows has to be used, making lighting very tricky, then the color correction has to be very accurate.
It’s strange for me to drop in to a diamond shop on Hatton Garden and encounter the retail environment for these valuable commodities, In the past few years I’ve spent time in the Demoractic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and have witnessed the full horror of the environment that surrounds the parts of the world where they are extracted.
They have a strange weight,
During the cold spell we managed to get out to Welney Marsh to witness the ancient tradition of fen skating, due to the exceptionally cold weather skating is commencing earlier than in living memory.
Several fields are flooded to create the surface, racing will commence later in the month, for more information and regular updates visit:
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