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Print studio studies

From the series Print Studio Studies I Edition 1/10

For nearly two decades, this ongoing project by Edgar Martins has delved into the unseen world of photographic darkrooms and printmaking studios. Using small-format cameras, including 35mm and mobile phones, Martins captures the often-overlooked byproducts of the artistic printing process.

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David Campany, Edgar Martins, Will Self /

Anton’s Hand is Made of Guilt. No Muscle or Bone. He has a Gung-ho Finger and a Grief-stricken Thumb.

Collector's Edition I Paris Photo & Aperture Photobook Awards 2025 Shortlist

Following the death and disappearance of photojournalist Anton Hammerl during the 2011 Libyan War, this groundbreaking photobook investigates the circumstances of his demise. Described by the artist as a documentary project, a lipogram, and an imaginary anthropological study, the work serves as both a forensic mapping of a lost friend and a brilliant interrogation of photography’s role in conflict zones.

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David Campany, Edgar Martins, Will Self /

Anton’s Hand is Made of Guilt. No Muscle or Bone. He has a Gung-ho Finger and a Grief-stricken Thumb.

Winner of the Sony World Photography Awards 2023 I Paris Photo & Aperture Photobook Awards 2025 Shortlist

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Edgar Martins /

Rebel in hiding

From the series Anton's Hand is Made go Guilt.... I Edition 1/10

This artwork was produced in the context of Edgar Martins 2023 series Anton’s Hand is Made of Guilt…. It responds to the death and disappearance of the author’s close friend, photojournalist Anton Hammerl’s, during the 2011 Libyan war, through an examination of the geography, players and circumstances surrounding his demise.

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Cake iced with grief

From the series I'm Still Here I Edition 2/3

This artwork was produced in the context of Edgar Martins 2023 series I’m Still Here, and explores Freud’s early ideas about scopophilia (the pleasure of looking). Whilst Martins’ doesn’t fully subscribe to Freud’s views he does however agree that we must model a way of seeing that is capable of withholding some ‘secrets’.

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Lockup is a piece of piss compared to lockdown + NFT

From the series What Photography & Incarceration have in Common with an Empty Vase I Edition 2/3

This dypthic was produced in the context of Edgar Martins’ What Photography & Incarceration have in Common with an Empty Vase, a project which results from a collaboration with inmates, incarcerated in the West Midlands. The artwork was inspired on a snide remark made by an offender Martins befriended, who was released during the first lockdown of 2020, and who commented that “Lockup is a piece if piss compared to lockdown”.

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Lipograph Light Study #1

From the series The Strange Case of Achilles and the Tortoise I Edition 1/1

Edgar Martins’ experimental Lipograph Light Studies are created by exposing different lightwaves and light patterns onto photo sensitive paper. In this series Martins adopted Georges Perec’s lipogrammatical approach to deal with the difficult and complex topic of the death and disappearance of his good friend, photojournalist Anton Hammerl, during the 2011 Libyan war.

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Untitled #1, The Strange Case of Achilles and the Tortoise + NFT

From the series The Strange Case of Achilles and the Tortoise I Edition 1/1

This artwork is part of an experimental series developed by Edgar Martins during lockdown, as a reflexion on how Photography has become inextricably aligned to Technocapitalist doctrine. The works in this series challenge this notion and are produced, entirely, by making use of the by-products of the printing process and items that would normally be discarded.

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Untitled #2, The Strange Case of Achilles and the Tortoise + NFT

From the series The Strange Case of Achilles and the Tortoise I Edition 1/1

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The Missing Years

From the series What Photography & Incarceration have in Common with an Empty Vase I Edition 2/3

This dypthic was produced in the context of the artist’s latest project What Photography & Incarceration have in Common with an Empty Vase, a project which results from a collaboration with inmates, incarcerated in the West Midlands, their families and a myriad of other individuals and community groups in the region.

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Edgar Martins, Mark Durden /

What Photography & Incarceration have in Common with an Empty Vase

Collector's edition I Paris Photo & Aperture Photobook Awards 2020 Shortlist

This project results from a collaboration with inmates, incarcerated in the West Midlands (UK), their families and local organisations and individuals. By giving a voice to his subjects, the author proposes to rethink and counter the sort of imagery normally associated with incarceration and confinement.

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Make Men Great Again

From the series What Photography & Incarceration have in Common with an Empty Vase I Edition 1/3

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Edgar Martins, Mark Durden /

What Photography & Incarceration have in Common with an Empty Vase

Paris Photo & Aperture Photobook Awards 2025 Shortlist I PhotoEspaña Book Awards 2025 Shortlist

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Edgar Martins /

Would You Shed Your Skin for Me?

From the series Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes I Edition 1/1

This dypthic was produced in the context of the Edgar Martins’ award winning project Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes, a project developed over a period of three years with the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, Portugal, exploring the tension between concealment and revelation.

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Edgar Martins, Roger Luckhurst, Sérgio Mah, Timothy Secret /

Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes

Rencontres d'Arles Prix Du Livre 2018 Shortlist

Produced in collaboration with the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences in Portugal, between 2013 and 2017, this project is a reflexion on the tensions and contradictions inherent in the representation and imagination of death, in particular suicide, and the decisive but deeply paradoxical role that photography has played in its intelligibility and perception.

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It Kills Pain

From the series Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes I Edition 1/1

This dypthic was produced in the context of Edgar Martins’ Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes, a project developed over a period of three years with the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, Portugal.

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Edgar Martins, Nuno Faria, Roger Luckhurst /

Destinerrance

This book surveys the largest exhibition to date of the project Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes, at the CIAJG, Portugal, forcing us to consider photography’s role in the intelligibility of death.

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Edgar Martins, Peter D. Osborne /

00:00.00

In 2014 Edgar Martins approached BMW with a simple idea: to stop the production lines in order to photograph Plant Munich. Although the project surveys on the surface the fabrication, tooling and assembly of the modern era automobile vehicle, it also represents a point of resistance: to the world of flux and flow that we live in, to a world haunted by mobility, transience and uncertainty.

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Aluminium Honeycomb Assembly, M & C Laboratory, ESA-ESTEC

From the series The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite I Edition 3/3

This artwork was produced in the context of Edgar Martins’ The Rehearsal of Space and the Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite, a project which resulted from a three year collaboration with the European Space Agency and which represents the most comprehensive survey ever assembled about a leading scientific and space exploration organization.

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Edgar Martins, João Seixas, John Gribbin, Sérgio Mah /

The Rehearsal of Space & The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite

In 2012, Edgar Martins was granted unparalleled access to The European Space Agency (ESA) and its private aerospace partners. Martins’ project reflects the ever-growing role of science and technology in our society and our relationship with the unknown, whilst opening up wider questions around epistemology, metaphysics and ultimately humanity’s conception of itself.

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Edgar Martins, Geoff Dyer, João Pinharanda /

The Time Machine

Collector's edition

Shot between 2010 and 2011, this book is structured as a topographic survey of hydro-electricity generating plants. No more than half a dozen people run power stations which, in some cases, were intended to house up to 250 workers just a few decades ago. This project is, thus, not just about the generation of power of also of dreams and technological utopias.

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Lifting bolt used to disassemble the generating sets, 1Kg, 40x220mm

From the series The Time Machine I Edition 3/3

This artwork was produced in the context of Edgar Martins’ The Time Machine. Shot between 2010 and 2011, The Time Machine is structured as a topographic survey of hydro-electricity generating plants. In recovering a past of exciting technological innovation and optimistic belief in the future, these photographs suggest that they are not just about the generation of power but also of dreams and technological utopias.

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Edgar Martins, Geoff Dyer, João Pinharanda /

The Time Machine

Edition #2

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Edgar Martins, Geoff Dyer, João Pinharanda /

The Time Machine

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Edgar Martins /

This is not a House

Collector's edition & print I Edition of 50

This series, by Edgar Martins, brings us a poignant commentary on the financial ruin and bankruptcy that struck the lives of many thousands of people, in the wake of the 2008 sub-prime crisis in the USA. This beautifully printed collector’s edition comes with an 8×10″ C-print in a total edition of 50, signed and numbered by the artist.

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Edgar Martins, Peter D. Osborne, Sacha Craddock /

This is not a House

Collector's edition

In study that goes beyond mere documentation, this publication brings us a poignant commentary on the financial ruin and bankruptcy that struck the lives of many thousands of people, in the wake of the 2008 sub-prime crisis in the USA.

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Edgar Martins, Peter D. Osborne, Sacha Craddock /

This is not a House

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Edgar Martins, Jacinto Lageira, Sérgio Mah /

The Wayward Line

This publication is produced within the context of Edgar Martins’ retrospective exhibition at the Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian in Paris (Oct-Dec 2010) and brings together images from series created between 2005-2010, making possible a transverse appraisal of his photographic production, its unique characteristics, and conceptual framework.

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Edgar Martins, Gerry Badger /

When Light Casts no Shadow

Winner of BES Photo Prize 2008

This project was developed in a key number of European airports with an important role in history or the history of aviation.
Almost all the images were produced at night, using an 8×20″ or 8×10″ camera as well as the aprons’ floodlights, moonlight, long or double exposures of between ten minutes to two hours. Sky and ground merge in darkness with only the lights and airport hieroglyphics to orient us.

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Aproximações

Produced over a period of 12 months with the Portuguese Airport Administration Authorities this book surveys the modern airport. Pictured as the elementary expression of abstract space, in Martins’ images sky and ground collide, overlap and blur.

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David Campany, Edgar Martins, Nuno Porto, Peter D. Osborne /

The Diminishing Present

Rencontres d'Arles Prix Du Livre 2007 Shortlist

Produced almost entirely within a 3km radius of the author’s home, and inspired by Salman Rushdie’s critique of the film The Wizard of Oz, The Diminishing Present is a visual contemplation on the concept of home and what it means to belong somewhere.

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David Campany, Edgar Martins, John Beardsley /

Topologies

This seminal book is brings together 5 bodies of work, inspired by both early 18th century evocations of the sublime and contemporary pictorial traditions.
But for all its historical evocation, the photographs in this publication are fraught with anxieties about ruin.

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Angus Carlyle, Edgar Martins, Maria do Carmo Séren /

Black Holes & Other Inconsistencies

Winner of the 2002 Thames & Hudson & RCA Society Book Art Prize

This seminal book is an excursus on the metastization of the urban frontier. Produced in South-East China, Portugal and South Africa the author uses the ‘black hole’ in the landscape as a way to rethink our relationship with the modern de-centred city.

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