When he spoke he fired imaginary shots with his gun-shaped hands  is now available to pre-order in the bookshop. Photographed by Soviet soldiers between the 1940s and 1980s, these images catch men waiting for war, where mock violence and unspoken tenderness share the same frame. Assembled by Edgar Martins with a Ukrainian and a Russian collector who must remain anonymous, and printed over the pages of Sholokhov’s And Quiet Flows the Don, the book reads the past as a prism for a present war.

Civilisation: 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 Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich. This exhibition will run from 13 March until  19 July  2026.

The books shortlisted for the latest edition of the Paris Photo & Aperture Foundation Photobook Awards, including the collector’s edition of Anton’s hand is Made of Guilt… are presented  at Printed Matter, NYC. This exhibition will run from the 15 January to 15 March 2025.

When he spoke he fired imaginary shots with his gun-shaped hands(Когда он говорил, он производил воображаемые выстрелы своими руками в форме пистолета), has been selected as a finalist of the PHMuseum’s 2025 Photobook Award.
The finalists will be exhibited at Photobook Mania 2025 either in the form of book dummy or digital presentation ibetween 18-19 October 20205 in Bologna, Italy.

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” integrates the inaugural exhibition of MACAM– Museu de Arte Contemporânea Armando Martins, Lisbon, Portugal. This exhibition will run from the 26.03-13.10.2025.

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.