Works from the series I’m Still Here have been shortlisted for the 2024 Aesthetica Art Prize. The shortlisted works will be exhibited in a exhibittedn at York Art Gallery, UK from 16 February – 21 April 2024.

Edgar Martins’ forthcoming book is a research-based documentary project, a novel, a journal, a lipogramme and an imaginary anthropological study in one. It includes original photographs, archival photography and 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 will be launched in April 2024 and is now available to pre-order.

Photo Israel is the biggest photography event in Israel and the only one in the world that provides a joint platform for social outreach activities and for fascinating works by photographers and artists from across the globe. Following recent events in Israel and Gaza, the new edition of the festival has been postponed from 8 – 27 November 2023 to 27 March – 7 April 2024. The 11th edition of the festival will feature works from Edgar Martins’ ‘Anton’s Hand is Made of Guilt. No Muscle of Bone.

Works from the series Our War, which won Edgar Martins the Sony World Photographer of the Year 2023 accolade , are exhibited at Willy Brandt Haus, Berlin (Germany) as part of the SONY World Photography Awards touring exhibition. The exhibition will run from 17 November – 28 January 2024.

Works from the series I’m Still Here are presented at Paris Photo 2023 @ Galeria Lume, Stands B10 and S3. The fair takes place from 09-12.11.2023. This marks Edgar Martins’ second collaboration with Galeria Lume.

Watching, Waiting presents a collection of essays, both photographic and written, that brings emptiness into interdisciplinary focus as an object of study that extends beyond the present. The contributors approach the specific interrelationships of photography and place through emptiness by considering historical and contemporary material in equal measure.

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 received the highest accolade at the International Photography Awards 2023, in the Film/Analogue Portrait category.

Works from the series I’m Still Here are presented at Art Rio 2023 @ Galeria Lume, Stands B10 and S3. The fair takes place from 13-19.09.2023. This marks Edgar Martins’ first collaboration with Galeria Lume.

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”, has won the Juror’s Choice Award at the Hariban Prize 2023. Selected by Nestan Nijaradz, this work-in-progress project is based on a poignant and very personal story and experience: the death and disappearance of the artist’s good friend, photojournalist Anton Hammerl, during the 2011 Libyan war.

Works from the series The Accidental Theorist (20070 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.

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 Saatchi Gallery, London. This exhibition will run from 01 June until 17 September 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, 9:30.