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Sony World Photography Awards 2023 exhibition @ Somerset House, London

14/04/2023 - 01/05/2023

This exhibition features the work of the winners of the SONY World Photography Awards 2023, including Edgar Martins’ series Our War. Edgar Martins was crowned the Sony World Photographer of the Year Prize 2023.

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Civilization: The Way We Live Now @ Museums of San Domenico di Folrì, Italy

17/09/2022 - 07/01/2023

This major exhibition, curated by William Ewing, features the work of 100 of the world’s finest photographers, including Edgar Martins. It addresses and illuminates major aspects of our increasingly global 21st century civilization, in all its complexity.

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There’s a shite stunk in the air… Dad’s oot oan bail! @ Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon

24/05/2022 - 21/08/2022

This exhibition explores Freud’s early ideas about Scopophilia to rethink and counter the narrative commonly associated with incarceration.

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What Photography & Incarceration have in Common with an Empty Vase @ Ffotogallery, Cardiff

04/03/2022 - 09/04/2022

This is the third exhibition in the worldwide tour of this project, which seeks to rethink the representation of incarceration by exploring the ontological concept of absence.

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What Photography & Inc. have in Common with An Empty Vase @ Centre Photographie Genève, Switzerland

15/09/2021 - 28/11/2021

This is the second exhibition in the worldwide tour of this project, developed over a period of 3 years with inmates in the Midlands, UK and which seeks to rethink the representation of incarceration.

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Suicide, Let’s Talk About it @ Museum of Sephulcral Culture, Kassel

10/09/2021 - 27/02/2022

This exhibition presents examples from art and cultural history, medicine, the humanities and social sciences to challenges and reflect on how society and individuals deal with suicide.

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Ensaio para uma comunidade @ MAAT, Lisbon

24/04/2021 - 07/03/2022

This exhibition inaugurates the new programme developed by MAAT around the EDP Foundation art collection. The theme of the exhibition revolves around “memory” and the ways in which it is produced and awakened.

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The World Within @ Hangar Centre, Brussels

21/01/2021 - 27/03/2021

The World Within is an exhibition of the winners of the Hangar Centre Prize presented in the context of PhotoBrussels 5. Edgar Martins’ work is a reflexion on how Photography has become inextricably aligned with Technocapitalist doctrine to the detriment of the creative process.

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What Photography & Incarceration have in Common with an Empty Vase @ The Herbert Museum & Art Gallery, Coventry, UK

15/01/2021 - 18/04/2021

This is the first exhibition in the worldwide tour of this project, developed over a period of 3 years with inmates in the Midlands, UK and which seeks to rethink and counter the representation of incarceration.

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What Photography has in Common with an Empty Vase @ Galeria Pilar Serra, Madrid

11/03/2020 - 14/04/2020

This exhibition is a focused take on Martins’ worldwide touring project developed over a period of 3 years with inmates in the Midlands, UK and which seeks to rethink and counter the representation of incarceration.

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What Photography has in Common with an Empty Vase @ Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon

14/11/2019 - 11/01/2019

This is the first iteration of this exhibition, developed over a period of 3 years with inmates in the Midlands, UK and which uses the social context of incarceration to reflect on the philosophical and ontological concept of absence.

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Civilization: The Way We Live Now @ Ullens Art Centre, Beijing

09/03/2019 - 19/05/2019

This major exhibition, curated by William Ewing, features the work of 100 of the world’s finest photographers, including Edgar Martins. It addresses and illuminates major aspects of our increasingly global 21st century civilization, in all its complexity.

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