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  • EDGAR MARTINS: ANTON'S HAND IS MADE OF GUILT. NO MUSCLE OR BONE. HE HAS A GUNG-HO FINGER AND A GRIEF-STRICKEN THUMB.

    EDGAR MARTINS: ANTON'S HAND IS MADE OF GUILT. NO MUSCLE OR BONE. HE HAS A GUNG-HO FINGER AND A GRIEF-STRICKEN THUMB.

    Published by The Moth House 9 May 2024
    Edgar Martins’ new book is a research-based documentary project, a novel, a lipogramme and an imaginary anthropological study in one. It includes original photographs, archival...
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  • EDGAR MARTINS: Anton's Hand is Made of Guilt. No Muscle or Bone. He has a Gung-ho Finger and Grief-stricken Thumb, Somerset House, London

    EDGAR MARTINS: Anton's Hand is Made of Guilt. No Muscle or Bone. He has a Gung-ho Finger and Grief-stricken Thumb, Somerset House, London

    19 April - 6 May 22 April 2024
    Celebrating Edgar Martins, named Sony World Photograher 2023, with his exhibition 'Anton’s Hand is Made of Guilt. No Muscle or Bone. He has a Gung-ho...
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  • EDGAR MARTINS: SONY WORLD PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR 2023

    EDGAR MARTINS: SONY WORLD PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR 2023

    15 April 2023
    Edgar Martins has been awarded this year’s SONY World photographer of the Year Award for his series, Our War. Edgar Martins writes, ‘In 2011, my...
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  • EDGAR MARTINS: Film screening and lecture, Goldsmiths, University of London

    EDGAR MARTINS: Film screening and lecture, Goldsmiths, University of London

    4 May 2022 21 April 2022
    Edgar Martins: The Life and Death of Schrödinger’s Cat Film screening and lecture with Edgar Martins and guest speaker Zelda Cheatle This film is part...
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  • EDGAR MARTINS: What Photography & Incarceration have in Common with an Empty Vase, Ffotogallery, Cardiff

    EDGAR MARTINS: What Photography & Incarceration have in Common with an Empty Vase, Ffotogallery, Cardiff

    4 March - 9 April 2022 3 March 2022
    What Photography & Incarceration have in Common with an Empty Vase is a multifaceted body of work developed from a collaboration with Grain Projects and...
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  • EDGAR MARTINS: SUIZID - LET's TALK ABOUT IT! MUSEUM FOR SEPULCHRAL CULTURE, KASSEL

    EDGAR MARTINS: SUIZID - LET's TALK ABOUT IT! MUSEUM FOR SEPULCHRAL CULTURE, KASSEL

    Until 27 February 2022 31 August 2021
    Egdar Martins' works from the series Siloquies & Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes , to be included in the exhibition Suicide: Let’s Talk...
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  • EDGAR MARTINS: THE PROCESS OF MAKING & DEVELOPING, HERBERT ART GALLERY & MUSEUM, COVENTRY

    EDGAR MARTINS: THE PROCESS OF MAKING & DEVELOPING, HERBERT ART GALLERY & MUSEUM, COVENTRY

    20 February 2021
    Edgar Martins will share with audiences the process of making and develolping the project as well as the production of the book that accompanies What...
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  • EDGAR MARTINS LAUREATE OF EUROPEAN PHOTOGRAPHY CALL, HANGAR CENTRE, BRUSSELS 2020

    EDGAR MARTINS LAUREATE OF EUROPEAN PHOTOGRAPHY CALL, HANGAR CENTRE, BRUSSELS 2020

    20 October 2020
    Edgar Martins is a laureate of the European Photography Call at Hangar Centre. Hangar has launched a photographic mission open to artists confined in Europe,...
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  • EDGAR MARTINS INTERVIEW IN THE NOVEMBER ISSUE OF THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY

    EDGAR MARTINS INTERVIEW IN THE NOVEMBER ISSUE OF THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY

    30 October 2019
    Edgar Martins is interviewed about his recent project and book What Photography & Incarceration have in Common with an Empty Vase. “All the imagery that...
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  • EDGAR MARTINS AT COLECAO BERARDO MUSEUM, LISBON

    EDGAR MARTINS AT COLECAO BERARDO MUSEUM, LISBON

    10 APRIL - 30 SEPTEMBER 2019 10 April 2019
    Works from the series What Photography has in Common with an Empty Vase to feature in the show Constellations: A choreography of minimal Gestures curated...
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  • EDGAR MARTINS: I AM STILL HERE AT ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, SOUTHBANK CENTRE, LONDON

    EDGAR MARTINS: I AM STILL HERE AT ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, SOUTHBANK CENTRE, LONDON

    19 September - 4 November 2018 19 September 2018
    I Am Still Here is an exhibition of art by ex-offenders, secure patients, and detainees curated by prisoners' families. It features especially commissioned works by...
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  • EDGAR MARTINS: THE POETIC IMPOSSIBILITY TO MANAGE THE INFINITE AT NEW WALK MUSEUM & ART GALLERY, LEICESTER

    EDGAR MARTINS: THE POETIC IMPOSSIBILITY TO MANAGE THE INFINITE AT NEW WALK MUSEUM & ART GALLERY, LEICESTER

    26 MAY - 1 JULY 2018 26 May 2018
    Edgar Martins' series The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite, to be presented at New Walk Museum and Art Gallery (Leicester, UK). For the launch...
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