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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.

Winner of the Sony World Photography Awards 2023

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What Photography & Inc. have in Common with an Empty Vase

Edgar Martins, Mark Durden

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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What Photography & Inc. have in Common with an Empty Vase

Shortlisted for the 2020 Paris Photo & Aperture F. Photobook Awards & PhotoEspaña Book Awards

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Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes

Edgar Martins, Roger Luckhurst, Sérgio Mah, Timothy Secret

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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Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes

Shortlisted for the 2018 Recontres D'Arles Book Awards

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Destinerrance

Edgar Martins, Nuno Faria, Roger Luckhurst

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

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

Edgar Martins, João Seixas, John Gribbin, Sérgio Mah

In 2012, Edgar Martins was granted unparalleled access to The European Space Agency (ESA) and its private aerospace partners’ programs. Martins’ project reflects on the wider politics of space exploration, 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 humanity’s conception of itself.

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The Time Machine

Edgar Martins, Geoff Dyer, João Pinharanda

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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The Time Machine

Edgar Martins, Geoff Dyer, João Pinharanda

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This is not a House

Edgar Martins, Peter D. Osborne, Sacha Craddock

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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The Wayward Line

Edgar Martins, Jacinto Lageira, Sérgio Mah

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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When Light Casts no Shadow

Edgar Martins, Gerry Badger

This project was developed in some of the most interesting airports in Europe with a key role in history (the Azores, for example, was a compulsory stop for transatlantic flights prior to 1970 and a military base in both World Wars).
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

Edgar Martins

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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Aproximações

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Topologies

David Campany, Edgar Martins, John Beardsley

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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Topologies

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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.

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

What Photography & Inc. have in Common with an Empty Vase

What Photography & Inc. have in Common with an Empty Vase

Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes

Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes

Destinerrance

Destinerrance

00:00.00

00:00.00

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

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

The Time Machine

The Time Machine

The Time Machine

The Time Machine

This is not a House

This is not a House

The Wayward Line

The Wayward Line

When Light Casts no Shadow

When Light Casts no Shadow

Aproximações

Aproximações

Topologies

Topologies

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