Edgar Martins joins The Moth House at A Bigger Book Fair, Peckham 24 & Photo London London Book Market, from 16-18.05.2025.
Please come and join us to view our latest titles including “Anton’s Hand is Made of Guilt. No Muscle or Bone. He has a Gung-ho Finger and a Grief-stricken Thumb”, a collaboration between Edgar Martins, David Campany, Will Self and others.

Civilization: The Way we Live now, an exhibition curated by William Ewing featuring works from the series The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite, The Time Machine and 00:00.00 is  exhibited at The Kunsthalle München, Germany. This exhibition will run from 09 April until  24 August 2025.

The triptych “Dissident wearing makeshift Burka”, from the series “Anton’s Hand is Made of Guilt. No Muscle or Bone. He has a Gung-ho Finger and Grief-stricken Thumb” will integrate the inaugural exhibition of MACAM– Museu de Arte Contemporânea Armando Martins, Lisbon, Portugal, in March 2025.

Paper plane, from the series Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes, 2016, is included in the group exhibition “…daquele que é (des)objecto II” @ Fundação Leal Rios, Lisbon. This exhibition runs from 27.09.2204 to 22.02.2025.

Edgar Martins’ new book is a research-based documentary project, a novel, a lipogramme and an imaginary anthropological study in one. It includes original photographs, archival photography,  images researched from dark web forums,  an album of probing soundscapes exploring the everyday experiences of a war correspondent as well as a book of drawings of myriad war scenes (collector’s edition). This book  is now available to pre-order.

“Anton’s Hand is Made of Guilt. No Muscle or Bone. He has a Gung-ho Finger and Grief-stricken Thumb.” is scheduled to open at Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal, on 21 September 2024. This exhibition runs until 16 November 2024.

Paper plane (from the series Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Intreludes), from the Fundação Leal Rios collection integrates the exhibition … DAQUELE QUE É (DES)OBJECTO @ FARRA, Festa da Arte em rede na regioão der Alentejo, Forte de Santa Luzia. This exhibition runs from 27 July – 28 August 2024.

Acumen magazine features Edgar Martins I’m Still Here, a work which takes the Mona Lisa’s theft from Louvre in 1911 to explore the psychology of looking at visual art and to as well as a ‘model of seeing’ that is capable of withholding ‘secrets’.

Anton’s Hand is Made of Guilt. No Muscle or Bone. He has a Gung-ho Finger and Grief-stricken Thumb opens at the Athens Photography Festival, Benaki Museum, Greece, on 6 June 2024. This exhibition runs until 28 July 2024.

Edgar Martins talks to Aesthetica Magazine about the launch of his new project and book ‘Anton’s Hand is Made of Guilt. No Muscle or Bone. He has a Gung-ho Finger and  Grief-stricken Thumb. This is the first  in-depth interview the artist has given about the project.

Edgar Martins talks to Amílcar Correia (O Público, Portugal) about the launch of his new project and book ‘Anton’s Hand is Made of Guilt. No Muscle or Bone. He has a Gung-ho Finger and  Grief-stricken Thumb.

Anton’s Hand is Made of Guilt. No Muscle or Bone. He has a Gung-ho Finger and Grief-stricken Thumb opens at Sommerset House, London on 19 April 2024. This exhibition runs until 6 May and is integrated in the Sony World Photography Awards 2024.

Edgar Martins is Interviewed by Aesthetica Magazine in the context of his shortlisted works for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2024.

this exhibition presents a combination of artistic practices that are based on the construction of community spheres, revealing how artists take positions and address pressing issues of their time. Bringing together more than 30 works, the exhibition continues CACE’s strategy of disseminating its collection on a national stage and presents a wide range of recent acquisitions, including the works of Edgar Martins.

Civilization: The Way we Live now, an exhibition curated by William Ewing featuring works from the series The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite, The Time Machine and 00:00.00 is  exhibited at Jut Art Museum, Taipei. This exhibition will run from 16 March until  30 June 2024.

To mark the launch of Edgar Martins’ new book, a special 8×10″ collotype print has been launched of one of the wining works of the Sony World Photography Awards. The artwork is printed by the Benrido Atelier in Japan on PHO paper (produced by Fujifilm in 1949) using a traditional collotype process.

Edgar Martins’ new book is a research-based documentary project, a novel, a lipogramme and an imaginary anthropological study in one. It includes original photographs, archival photography,  images researched from dark web forums,  an album of probing soundscapes exploring the everyday experiences of a war correspondent as well as a book of drawings of myriad war scenes (collector’s edition). This book  is now available to pre-order.

Our War,  a selection of images from Edgar Martins’ new project titled ‘Anton’s hand is made of guilt, no muscle or bone. He has two clinically depressed fingers and an angry thumb’  receives the highest accolade at the International Photography Awards 2023, in the Film/Analogue Portrait category.

Edgar Martins participates in the  11th edition of Photo Israel, International Photography Festival @ Enav Cultural Center and Gan Ha’ir, Tel Aviv, with works from the series ‘Anton’s hand is made of guilt, no muscle or bone. He has two clinically depressed fingers and an angry thumb’ . Following recent events in Israel and Gaza, the festival has been postponed from 8-23 November 2023 to 27 March – 7 April 2024

Edgar Martins talks to Edwards Siddons from the Guardian abut ‘Dodging Imaginary Bullets in Benghazi’.

Edgar Martins talks to Leão Serva for Folha de São Paulo (Brazil) about his award winning series ‘Our War’, which won him the Photographer of the Year accolade at the Sony World Photography Awards 2023.

Works from the series The Accidental Theorist (2007) and When Light Casts no Shadow (2008), from the collection António Cachola are included in the exhibition Contravisões, Parte II, at the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas, Portugal. This exhibitions is curated by Sérgio Mah and runs from 26 June – 30 August 2023.

Edgar Martins discusses his latest work in the context of the one-day online symposium Documentary Futures : Redefining Technical Images and Speculative Blind-Spots on 1 June, 10:30 -17:00. Other speakers include Maja Daniels, Michael Reisch, Rosa Menkman, Theo Jean Cuthland, Michal O’Connell, Pinar Yoldas, Mark Kasumovic. Click post to book your place via Eventbright.

Edgar Martins and Edmunk Clark discuss their latest work with Isabelle von Ribbentrop at Prix Pictet space, Photo London 2023, on 10 May 16.30.

World Photographer of the Year, Edgar Martins, shares his thoughts with the World Photography Organisation on winning the prestigious award for his moving series ‘Our War’ and looks back at his previous successes in the SONY World Photography Awards.

Edgar Martins is interviewed by CNN on the Connect the World with Becky Anderson program, 14.04.2023, in the context of the SONY World Photography Awards 2023.

Edgar Martins is interviewed by BBC News on 14.04.2023, for his winning project Our War, which won him the accolade World Photographer of the Year 2023.

Works from the series Black Minutes of Memorial Snow, are featured in the exhibition Pose @ Centro de Arte Contemporânea de Coimbra.  This exhibition is curated by José Maçãs de Carvalho and runs from 4.03 – 28.05.2023.

Edgar Martins is keynote speaker at Master PHotoESPAÑA. This  event is scheduled to take place online, from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on 20.03.2023.

Works from the series I wance met Jesus in a coille are presented at ARCO Madrid 2023 @ Galeria Filomena Soares, Stand 7B02. The fair takes place from 22-26.02.2023.

Previously unseen works from the series I’m Still Here will be are presented at the London Art Fair 2023 @ Purdy Hicks Gallery, Stand 23, from 15-22.01.2023.

Edgar Martins launches his new website. Bringing together a fresh perspective and edit of the projects the artist has produced over the past 15 years, this new site catalyses Edgar Martins’ recent interests, methodologies and ideas about photography and art.

Works from the series Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes have been acquired by the 2021 Commission for the Acquisition of Contemporary Art on behalf of Portugal’s National Art Collection and Cultural Patrimony.

CIVILIZATION: The Way we Live now, an exhibition curated by William Ewing featuring works from Martins’ series The Time Machine and 00:00.00, will be launched at the Museum Domenico, Forlì, on 17.09.2022.

The University of South Wales hosts a talk and professional development day with Edgar Martins’ on July 29, 10am – 1pm. Edgar Martins discusses his latest project What Photography & Incarceration have in Common with an Empty Vase in the context of his exhibition at MNAC, Lisbon and looks at student’s portfolios and work.

Edgar Martins discusses his latest project with  Photo Israel’s curator Ya’ara Aras Haklai,  in the context of his nominations for the Meitar Award for Excellence in Photography in both 2020 and 2021.
Participation is free of charge, but registration is required.

Symptomatically titledThere’s a Shite Stunk in the air… Dad’s oot oan bail! this exhibition is a comprehensive and original take on Martins’ award winning project What Photography & Incarceration have in Common with an Empty Vase.
Using the social context of incarceration as a starting point, Martins explores the philosophical concept of absence, and addresses a broader consideration of the status of the photograph when questions of visibility, ethics, aesthetics and documentation intersect. This exhibition opens on the 24.05.2022 @ 18H30 and runs  from the 25.05.2022 – 21.08.2022.

Untitled #2 is the first of a series of unique edition NFTs of 1min animated videos with original audio of the artworks from the series The Strange Case of Achilles and the Tortoise, 2020 .
This series of works marks the launch of my incursion info the NFT world.

This dypthic was produced in the context of the project Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes, developed over a period of three years with the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, Portugal. It reflects on the gaps in understanding, information and representation and the deep rooted anxieties around ethics and aesthetics that inevitably arise when documentary photography and questions of visibility intersect.

The dyphtic No Man is an Island, from the series What Photography & Incarceration have in Common with an Empty Vase, is among the 30 shortlisted works,  for the inaugural Sovereign Portuguese Art Prize, which celebrates the practices of leading contemporary artists living in Portugal, and its diaspora. The judging panel included artists Ai Wei Wei and Joana Vasconcelos. The exhibition featuring the finalists’ work will be shown at Palácio das Artes, Porto; Sociedade de Belas Artes, Lisbon & the Berardo Museum, Estremoz.

Symptomatically titledThere’s a Shite Stunk in the air… Dad’s oot oan bail! this exhibition is a comprehensive and original take on Martins’ award winning project What Photography & Incarceration have in Common with an Empty Vase.
This multifaceted body of work was developed from a collaboration with Grain Projects and inmates in the Midlands and uses the social context of incarceration to explore the philosophical concept of absence, and address a broader consideration of the status of the photograph when questions of visibility, ethics, aesthetics and documentation intersect. This exhibition runs from 25.05.2022 – 21.08.2022.

Works from the series Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes have been acquired by the Museum for Sephulcral Culture, Kassel, following their inclusion in the exhibition Suicide: Let’s Talk About it! , 10 September to 22 February 2022.  

Original and previously unseen abstract collages from the series The Strange Case of Achilles & The Tortoise, available as unique edition prints, will be exhibited for the first time at Photo London 2022 @ Purdy Hicks Gallery, Stand G7. Produced during lockdown, this series is a critique of how image making has become inextricably aligned to Technocapitalist doctrine. Photo London 2022 runs from  12 – 15 May 2022. A small selection of these artworks will also be available for purchase in Edgar Martins’ bookshop, after the fair. 

Cynthia Sitei interviews  Edgar Martins on the occasion of the opening of his critically-acclaimed exhibition What Photography & Inc. have in Common with an Empty Vase at Ffotogallery, Cardiff.
This multifaceted body of work developed from a collaboration with Grain Projects and HM Prison Birmingham (the largest, category B prison in the Midlands, UK), its inmates, their families as well as a myriad of other local organisations and individuals.

New abstract works from the series Lipograph Light Studies, will be exhibited for the first time at ARCO Art Fair 2022 @ Galeria Filomena Soares, Stand 7B02. Developed during lockdown, these works were produced by exposing light sensitive photo paper to llight waves and patterns emitted by a custom engineered laser device . ARCO Art Fair runs from  22 – 27 February 2022. A small selection of these artworks will also be available for purchase in Edgar Martins’ bookshop, after the fair. 

The Life and Death of Schrödinger’s Cat, the film element of the project What Photography & Incarceration have  in Common with an Empty Vase is screened @ MOCA,London, from 04 – 28 February 2022.

Flossie Skelton interviews Edgar Martins about his project What Photography & Incarceration have in Common with an Empty Vase, winner of the BJP 1854 Portrait of Humanity Prize 2020.

For the second year running Edgar Martins’ work is shortlisted for the Meitar Award for Execllence in Photography. This work will be on show during the 9th edition of Photo Israel, from 17 – 27. November 2021

The project What Photography & Incarceration have in Common with an Empty Vase kicks off International tour at The Geneva Photography Centre (Switzerland) and Ffotogallery (Wales).

Works from the series Siloquies & Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes are  included in the exhibition Suicide: Let’s Talk About It! at The Museum for Sephulcral Culture, Kassel, Germany, from 10.09.2021 – 27.02.2022. This exhibition will be presented in the context of the museum’s  permanent  exhibition Dying, Death, Burial, Mourning & Commemoration. y copy abridged, shortened sentence click for more info….

What Photography & Incarceration have in Common with an Empty is included in The Centre for Book Arts summer exhibition series, New York, as part of the Paris Photo & Aperture Book Awards 2020 touring exhibition. This exhibition will run from 09 Jul – 18 Sep 2021.

Works from the series The Time Machine & This is not a House feature in the exhibition Ensaio para uma Comunidade: retrato de uma coleção em construção,@ MAAT, Lisbon (Espaço Central Tejo). This exhibition is curated by Paulo Mendes and runs from  24 Apr 21 – 03 Jul 22.

Images from the series Landscaped Beyond:The Burden of Proof were among the winning entries in the BJP’s 1854 Decade of Change awards. An exhibition of winners will be presented at the Hong Kong Museum of Climate Change on June 10 2021.

Civilization: The Way we Live now, an exhibiting curated by William Ewing featuring works from the series The Time Machine and 00:00.00 is  exhibited at Muceum, Marseille. This exhibition will run from  24 Feb – 28 Jun 2021.

What Photography & Incarceration have in Common with an Empty Vase wins the inaugural BJP 1854 Portrait  of Humanity Photography Prize 2020.

What Photography & Incarceration have in Common with an Empty Vase kicks off the UK exhibition tour @ The Herbert Museum (Coventry, UK).

What Photography & Incarceration have in Common with an Empty Vase has been shortlisted for the best photobook of the year @ the Paris Photo & Aperture Foundation Photobook Awards 2020 as well as the the Best Photography Book Award PHotoESPAÑA 2020.

Arte em São Bento 2020 featuring works from the Coleção Fernando Figueiredo (from the series Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life & Other Interludes) will be on show at Palacete de São Bento (Residency of the Portuguese Prime-Minister). This exhibition is curated by João Silvério & Ana Anacleto and will run from 05 – 11 Oct 2020.

Works from the series The Strange Case of Achilles and the Tortoise are among the winners of the Hangar Prize 05 and will be exhibited  at the PhotoBrussels Festival: The World Within, at theHangar Centre, Brussels, Belgium, from 21 Jan – 27 Mar 2021.

I wance  met Jesus in a coille has been selected as a finalist in the 2020 Meitar Award for Excellence in Photography. This work will be on show at the 8th International Photography Festival, Tel-Aviv, Israel from the 3 – 21  Nov 2020.

Works from the series The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite, from the permanent collection of Museu Gulbenkian are on show in the exhibition “Partidas e Chegadas. Artistas em Viagem na Coleção Moderna” from 25 Feb to 01 Aug 2020.

Th e exhibition What Photography has in Common with an Empty Vase launches at  Galeria Filomena Soares, Portugal. The exhibition will run until 20 Jan 2020.

Experimental abstract works from the series Destinerrances have been acquired by the JP Morgan collection, following their exhibition at Paris Photo 2019.

What Photography & Incarceration have in Common with an Empty Vase project developed with inmates in the Midlands (UK)  is launched at Paris Photo & Off-print 2019. There will be 4 separate events:
.Wednesday, 6th November, from 16:00-17:00, Stand A22 (Galeria Filomena Soares, Paris Photo); .Friday, 8th November, from 16:00-17:00, Stand D3 (Melanie Rio Fluency, Paris Photo); .Friday, 8th November, from 17:00-18:00, Stand A22 (Galeria Filomena Soares, Paris Photo); .Saturday, 9th November, from 16:00-17:00 (Centre Photographie Genève stand, Off-print).

CIVILIZATION: The Way we Live now, an exhibiting curated by William Ewing featuring works from the series The Time Machine and 00:00.00 is  exhibited at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. This exhibition will run from 13 Sept 2019 – 02 Feb  2020.

CIVILIZATION: The Way we Live now, an exhibiting curated by William Ewing featuring works from the series The Time Machine and 00:00.00 to be launched at New Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul. This exhibition will run from 18 Oct 20 18 – 17 Feb 2019.

Works from the series The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite & 00:00.00 have been acquired by MAST Bologna, to integrate their collection on Industrial Photography.

Melanie Rio Gallery will be hosting the launch of Edgar Martins’ new book The Rehearsal of Space and the Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite at Paris Photo 2014. The gallery will be hosting 3 separate booksignings with the artist Edgar Martins on the 13 and 15 Nov from 5-6pm.