Weekly Artist Post - Edgar Martins - Hannah Nees

Edgar Martins is a photographer from Portugal, born in 1977. He takes photographs of non-traditionally beautiful things. This series above is from "This is not a House" created in 2008 in American cities like Atlanta, Georgia and Bakersfield, California. Over his career as a photographer he has photographed forests that were once on fire, airport runways, and different parts of Iceland. He has been in many exhibits throughout the world and still works on different series. 

In the series "This is not a House", Martins is taking photographs of houses that have been affected by the mortgage crisis in the United States. He shot these photographed for the "New York Times Magazine". One of the reasons I enjoy these photographs so much is because they kind of resemble my work, but only because some of them are buildings at night. I want to use external lights like he does. I think his concept is very interesting, and it connects in every photograph.

http://www.edgarmartins.com/