The PHMuseum reviews What Photography & Incarceration have in Common with an Empty Vase

11 August 2021

Laurence Cornet sits down with Edgar Martins to discuss the award winning photographic project What Photography & Incarceration have in Common with an Empty Vase. According to Cornet, Edgar Martins challenges the imagery of incarceration and isolation by not shooting inside a prison. And by avoiding a more commonplace depiction of his subject, he questions the limits of photography.

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Black Holes & Other Inconsistencies

Angus Carlyle, Edgar Martins, Maria do Carmo Séren

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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Black Holes & Other Inconsistencies

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

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Mrs. Rose Adams, 05.06.1968

Mia Salvato

This artwork examines & reimagines a set of historical images, from the collection of the Archive of Modern Conflict, which were taken by an unnamed US policeman in the 1960s, who produced erotic images of black women in his spare time. It opens up a debate about the politicisation of the representation of the female body, the synchronous histories of anthropology & colonialism & their intersection with the practice of photography.

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Mrs. Rose Adams, 05.06.1968

From the series All the women I have photographed. All the women I have slept with. I Edition 1/3 I Artistic Practice Support Print Sales Program #6

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

David Campany, Edgar Martins, Will Self

This a documentary project, a novel, a lipogramme and an imaginary anthropological study in one. It responds to the death and disappearance of the author’s close friend –photojournalist Anton Hammerl– during the 2011 Libyan war, through an examination of the geography and circumstances surrounding his demise as well as a reflection on the paradoxical role that photography has played in conflict zones.

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

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Torso

William Lakin

Torso, by William Lakin, is from the 2021 series Five Minutes After Birth, a response to the social conditioning men experience in modern Western societies. Referencing anti-social behaviour, sexuality and traditional gender roles, this work offers both a critical and reflective response to men’s pursuit of power and control, and their inclination to engage in competitive and often harmful behaviours.

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Torso

From the series Five Minutes After Birth I Edition 1/5 I Artistic Practice Support Print Sales Program #2

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