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The accidental theorist, by Peter D. Osborne

This essay was first published in Martins’ The Diminishing Present. Osborne’s responds to Martins’ project and proposes his own photographic poetics of space.

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Memories of nowhere, by David Chandler

This essay was first published in Martins’ The Diminishing Present. Chanlder responds to Martins’ work in a personal and intimate way, exploring the memories it awakened in him.

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The bay road bird, by David Campany

This essay was first published in Martins’ The Diminishing Present. Campany’s fictional and intimate recalls a dream he had inspired by Martins work.

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The diminishing present, by Nuno Porto & Ana Rita Amaral

This essay was first published in Martins’ The Diminishing Present. Porto and Amaral’s original essay break down the prevalent themes in Martins’ work and develop an in-depth visual semiotic analysis of each of them.

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Presente ameaçado: fronteiras e mitos, by Maria do Carmo Serén

This essay was first published in Martins’ The Diminishing Present. Serén explores how borders, non-place spaces and myths are tackled in Edgar Martins’ work and how they explore ideas of uncertainty about the future.

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Under the paving stone, by Cyrus Shahrad

This essay was first produced to accompany a feature of Edgar Marins’ work in Hot Shoe Magazine. Shahrad’s fictional essay is inspired by Martins’ The Accidental Theorist.

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Life is a beach, by Roy Exley

This essay was first produced to accompany a feature of Edgar Marins’ work in Hot Shoe Magazine. Exley’s essay deconstucts and analises Martins’ approach and methodology in The Accidental Theorist.

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