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Oct-Dec 2020 (date tbc)

What Photography has in Common with an Empty Vase will be presented @ Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea (MNAC), Lisbon (Portugal).

Mar-Jun 2020

What Photography has in Common with an Empty Vase will be presented at the Macau Museum of Art, Macau (China).

March-April 2020 (date tbc)

What Photography has in Common with an Empty Vase to be presented at Galeria Pilar Serra, Madrid.

Jan-Feb 2020 (date tbc)

What Photography has in Common with an Empty Vase will be presented at Catharine Clark Gallery (San Francisco).

14 Nov 2019 - 04 Jan 2020

What Photography has in Common with an Empty Vase will be presented @ Galeria Filomena Soares (Portugal).

June-August 2019 (date tbc)

Destinerrance will be presented @ 3 Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing.

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6 June

Works from the series This is not a House, to be included in the group exhibition 'De outros espaços' to be held at Galeria Municipal do Porto, Portugal.

15 May 2019

What Photography has in Common with an Empty Vase, a new book by Edgar Martins to be launched @ Photo London 2019.

27.04.2018 - 07.06.2019

00:00.00 included in Usimages Biennial of Industrial Photography, France.

26 April - 02 May 2019

LensCulture is proud to present Beyond Boundaries, an expansive exhibition of recent discoveries in contemporary photography. Curated in part by leading editors, curators, thought leaders, and artists, Beyond Boundaries is an inclusive group show that doubles as both a celebration and a survey of global image making today. With seventy-seven participating photographers hailing from over twenty-seven countries, this exhibition is a visual reflection of the beating hearts and curious minds of LensCulture’s vibrant community.

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Images from the series What Photography has in Common with an Empty Vase, awarded one of the top prizes of the Lens Culture Fine Art Photography Awards 2018 will form part of this exhibition.

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20 March - 19 August, 2019

Works from the series The Time Machine: An Incomplete & Semi-Objective Survey of Hydro-Power Stations will be included in the group show Fiction and Fabrication @ MAAT, Lisbon.Fiction and Fabrication is intended to depict the emergence of photographic practices that, either arising from the field visual arts or the post-Photoshop condition, have introduced a disturbance in the ways architecture is represented and made part of a wider contemporary visual culture. Ranging from depictions of real conditions that become stranger than fiction, to fictional construction made for and through the photographic image, the show will get together a fascinating array of contemporary work.

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Participating Artists: Aglaia Konrad, Andreas Gursky, Anja Niemi, Antoni Muntadas, Bas Princen, Beate Gütschow, Carlos Garaicoa, Celine Condorelli, David Claerbout, Dionisio Gonzalez, Doug Aitken, Edgar Martins, Erwin Olaf, Evandro Soares, Filip Dujardin, Gerold Tagwerker, Gregory Crewdson, Hanna Starkey, Hans Op de Beeck, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Inês Lombardi, Isabel Brison, James Casabere, James Welling, Jeff Wall, Jonathan Lewis, Lucia Koch, Mafalda Marques Correia, Martha Rossler, Mónica de Miranda, Nick Relph, Nicolas Grospierre, Oliver Ratsi, Olivier Boberg, Patrick Hamilton, Pedro Tudela, Philip Schaerer, Rita Sobral Campos, Rodrigo Oliveira, Roland Fisher, Sabine Hornig, Tatiana Macedo, Teresa Braula Reis, Thomas Demand, Thomas Ruf, Veronika Kellndorfer and Wolfgang Tillmans.

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27.03.2019 - 27.09.2019

Works from the series What Photography has in Common with an Empty Vase to feature in the show  Constellations: A choreography, @ Museu Fundação Berardo, Lisbon

15 March - 9 June

What Photography has in Common with an Empty Vase to be exhibited at FORMAT Festival 2019. Work to be included in the show Mutable/Multiple, QUAD, Derby.

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09.03.2019 - 19.5.2019

CIVILIZATION: The Way we Live now, an exhibiting curated by William Ewing featuring works from the series The Time Machine and 00:00.00 to be exhibited at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing.

20.09.2018

CIVILIZATION: The Way we Live now, an exhibiting curated by William Ewing featuring works from the series The Time Machine and 00:00.00 to be exhibited at National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

17.10.2018

CIVILIZATION: The Way we Live now, an exhibiting curated by William Ewing featuring works from the series The Time Machine and 00:00.00 to be launched at New Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul.

5.12.2018

WHAT PHOTOGRAPHY AND INCARCERATION HAVE IN COMMON WITH AN EMPTY VASE: A Symposium on Incarceration, Absence, Photography and Fiction will take place at At The Shell, Parkside, Birmingham City University 5th December 2018, 2pm – 6pm.

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What Photography has in Common with an Empty Vase is a multifaceted body of work by Edgar Martinsdeveloped from a collaboration with GRAIN Projects and HMP Birmingham (the largest, category B prison in the Midlands).  The collaboration was based on engagement with the prison’s inmates and their families as well as a myriad of other local organisations and individuals. Using the social context of incarceration as a starting point, artist Edgar Martins explores the philosophical concept of absence, and addresses a broader consideration of the status of the photograph when questions of visibility, ethics, aesthetics and documentation intersect. By giving a voice to inmates and their families and addressing prison as a set of social relations  rather than a mere geographical entity, Martins’ work proposes to rethink and counter the sort of imagery normally associated with incarceration.

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10.10.2018

Destinerrance will be presented at Purdy Hicks Gallery.

07.11.2018 - 11.11.2018

A selection of works from What Photography has in Common with an Empty will be presented by Catharine Clark Gallery @ Paris Photo 2018.

17.08.2018

I'm Still Here is an exhibition organised by The Koestler Trust of art by ex-offenders, secure patients and detainees curated by prisoner's families.

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This show will include especially commissioned works by Edgar Martins, following his recent series What Photography has in Common with an Empty, a project developed with Grain Projects, HMP Birmingham and its inmates and families.

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30.06.2018 - 24.02.2019

Works from the series The Time Machine will be on show at Centro de Arte Contemporânea Graça Morais, Bragança.

26 May 2018

The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite, to be presented at New Walk Museum and Art Gallery (Leicester, UK).  

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For the launch of the exhibition Edgar Martins will be hosting a talk with ESA astronaut Jean-François Clervoy.

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17.05.08 - 20.05.08

What Photography has in Common with an Empty Vase to be presented at Photo London 2018 (Purdy Hicks Gallery).

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21.02.08 - 25.02.08

Edgar Martins' Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes at ARCO 2018 (Galeria Pilar Serra).

December 2017

Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes voted one of the best books of the year by 1000words magazine. 

9-12.11.2017

Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes will be presented at Melanie Rio Fluency stand during Paris Photo 2017.

10.11.2018

Launch of Destinerrance: The Place of the Dead is the Place of Photography @ Paris Photo 2017. This publication is published by CIAJG & The Moth House. More news to follow.

9-18.10.2017

Work by the Winners, Finalists, and Jurors' Picks from the Magnum Photography Awards 2017 will be exhibited in London at The Photographers' Gallery from 9-18 October. This show will include images from the series Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes.

08.09.2017 - 24.09.2017

Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death Life and Other Interludes will be presentes at the inaugural edition of  Photo Oxford 2017, from 8 -24 September (Kendrew Barg Gallery, St. John's College, St. Giles, Oxford, OX1 3JP).

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Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways. —T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral, 1935 Photo Oxford presents the UK premiere of Edgar Martins’ new work Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes. Produced in collaboration with the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences in Portugal, Martins’ work is borne out of a frustration with photography’s inability to show the nature of death, as opposed to what he describes as the media’s ‘glorification of the gory and the bizarre’. Contemporary depictions of death focus on spectacle, rather than attempt to create the space to encourage an understanding of its causes, contexts and consequences and Martin seeks to bring these to the fore. The physicality of death is inevitably horrible and often shocking, while its literal depiction in photography – of the dead body in particular – is intrusive. Subjects are powerless, unable to shield their faces or refuse. The challenge of the photograph then, and the photographer, is to communicate something meaningful about death and investigate its anthropological, social and historical contexts as well as its personal relevance. Through the use of new photography, appropriating previously unseen archive material – including historical photographs, confidential case and medical files, crime and suicide-scene evidence – installation and projections, Martin’s offers a poignant study that proposes to scrutinise, expose and hold in tension many of the contradictions and problems inherent in the depiction on death, as well as on language and semiotics. The artist deploys both documentary photography approaches and fiction and in turn, his series of photographs and text becomes a process of unveiling, rather than straightforward, factual accounts. Inspired by his own experience of traumatic death, Martins’ project focuses on violent death and, in particular, suicide. In doing so, he meditates on the often unforeseeable but always inevitable nature of mortality and, investigates its legacies through the depiction of material evidence - from extracts from suicide notes, to press photographs reporting family murders to photographic records of deceased persons’ belongings. This archive material is variously manipulated by Martins, yet forever haunted by the spectres of its victims or perpetrators. Martins photographs become like late nineteenth and early twentieth century spirit photographs, only without the absurd (but for the recipient, tangible and moving) double exposures of ghostly faces or ectoplasm. They move to the heart of the matter, exploring motivation and intent rather than venture into the shocking or grotesque. Each iteration of Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes is unique, responding to the space and location in which it is displayed. Presented in complex and suggestive sequences, the project is a visual journey towards the struggle of contemplating death, in search of people, places and images that have connection with us on the far side of time.  Curated by Tim Clark and Greg Hobson

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03.07.2017 & 07.07.2017

Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death Life and Other Interludes will be presented during Les Nuits de La Photographie @ Rencontres D'Arles 2017. The work will be projected as part of the Voies Off Awards nomination on Monday 3rd July at Croisière an during Night of the Year, on Friday 7th July at Papeteries Étienne. 

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This unmissable festive event of the opening week is a photo walk featuring the festival’s favorite artists and photographers. To view Edgar Martins' video click here.

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16.06.2017

Edgar Martins to speak at The State of Photography II: Symposium, an initiative by Grain Photography @ Birmingham City University.

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The State of Photography II will explore, debate and review how photographers and photography practice develops and responds in our current challenging times. How do we look at our world today and what does the world look like to photographers? THE STATE OF PHOTOGRAPHY II Friday 16th June 20179:30 am – 17:30 pmBirmingham City University, The Parkside Building, B4 7BE We invite acclaimed and outstanding photographers and artists who document the world around us to showcase their recent work. Each have different approaches to making their work which is issue based. They have been artist, story teller, observer, participant, explorer and poet. Their work has been made through collaboration, participation, community engagement, research and obstinacy. Some document communities and people they are familiar with others offer external perspectives on social issues and situations. Does one offer a better way to tell a story? Is it important to come from a community or do you become too involved? Is it more objective to come in from the outside? How do we insure the engagement is sincere and does not exploit? The documentary role of photography is changing, particularly as work is commissioned and made for gallery settings. Photography can impart the greatest truth of our times and sheds light on injustices, inequality and other aspects of our society. It has been and remains one of the strongest vehicles for change as photographers explore polities, gender, society, sexuality, diversity, economics and environment. It seems today – a time of political unrest, flux and crisis – more essential than ever to explore the role that photography can play. During the Symposium we will hear from the perspective of the photographer, curator and academic. They share our concerns about the present and offer a diverse range of practices, experiences and stories that document the state of humanity and the world today. The State of Photography Symposium aims to present new bodies of work, question and challenge ideas, as well as offering advice and talking about positive approaches to influence change, provoke, prompt and give a voice. We will hear from and celebrate those that create self-initiated projects and commissioned bodies of work and see a range of photographic practices that are at the cutting edge of photography now. Speakers include: Andrew Jackson Anthony Luvera Camilla Brown David Severn Edgar Martins John Hillman Kajal Nisha Patel Mahtab Hussain Michelle Sank Paul Herrmann (Redeye) Peta Murphy Burke (Arts Council England) Simon Constantine

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01.06.2017

This symposium will present and discuss documentary practices that involve new forms of storytelling in photography and film.Presentations by artists Brett Story and Edgar Martins will focus on the use and representation of physical space as a means of constructing social and epistemic order. The symposium will explore thematic links in the work of both practitioners in their varied encounters with cultural politics, science and the geographic imagination.  

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The event will consist of the screening of "The Prison in Twelve Landscapes" by Brett Story (2016), followed by a presentation on the ideas underpinning her work. In the afternoon Edgar Martins’ will give an overview of his photographic work and discuss his approach to developing and extending documentary practice.

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03.05.2017 - 03.09.2017

The Power of Images: An Iconic Selection of Photographs on Industry and Work from the MAST Collection, MAST (Italy). This extensive group show will feature recently acquired works from the series 00:00.00 and The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite.

13.05.2017

Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes has been selected for the Photo España 2017 Photobook Prize exhibition at the Spanish National Library, Madrid, from 13 May - 27 August 2017.  Prize results will be announced on June 15.

29.04.2017 - 02.05.2017

3 works from the series Reluctant Monoliths will be on display at Yamamoto Gendai's booth at Art Beijing 2017.

Sept-Nov 2017

The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite has been selected for Format 2017 due to take place between 24 March and 23 April 2017 (Derby, UK).

07.01.2017

Works from This is not a House, The Rate of Convergence of Two Opposing System Trajectories and A Metaphysical Survey of British Dwellings will integrate the group exhibition 'Este lugar lembra-te algum sítio?', curated by Miguel Sousa Ribeira at Círculo das Artes Plásticas Coimbra.

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29.11.2016 - 04.12.2016

Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes will be presented at Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art's stand (J8) at Art Basel Miami Beach 2016. 

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Other artists represented also include: Matt Mullican, Julião Sarmento, Lawrence Weiner, Erwin Wurm and others.

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10.11.2016

Group show Da Fuga e do Encontro: Inversões do Olhar, curated by Sérgio Fazenda Rodrigues opens at Espaço Novo Banco, Lisbon. 

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Works from the Novo Banco collection, including Candida Hofer, Edgar Martins, Elger Esser, Gregpry Crewdson, Julião Sarmento, Matt Mullican, Richard Misrach, William Eggleston, Wolfganf Tilmans.

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11.11.2016

Edgar Martins' my new book Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death and Life & Other Interludes will be launched at Paris Photo on November 11 (Melanie Rio Gallery and Purdy Hicks Gallery stands).

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Published by The Moth House in a limited edition print run, this book will be available in a beautiful, hard-back limited edition, 18.7x28cm, 200 pages, 100 photographs, a choice of two separate covers and essays by Sérgio Mah, Roger Luckhurst and Timothy Secret.

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Oct-Nov 2015 (tbc)

Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death and Life & Other Interludes at Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon. More news to follow.

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This show represents the second phase of an overarching exhibition project which was also presented at MAAT (Museu of Art, Architecture and Technology), Lisbon (Jun-Oct 2016).

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21.06.2015 - 14.09.2015

Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death and Life & Other Interludes at Museu da Electricidade/MAAT, Lisbon. More news to follow.

16th March 2016

The Time Machine will be presented at Dubai Photo Exhibition.

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A photography showcase of unprecedented scale and caliber, Dubai Photo Exhibition will be held from 16 - 19 March in a purpose-built ‘temporary museum’ at the Dubai Design District (d3), one of Dubai’s exciting new creative hubs.  The exhibition will be featuring over 700 artworks from 23 countries, chosen by 18 of the world’s top curators and lead by Head Curator, Zelda Cheatle. 

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15.01.2016 - 15.03.2016

Strange Fruit: Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death and Life will be presented at Open Eye Gallery (Liverpool) from January-March 2016. More news to follow.

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This exhibition will also be showcased at Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, & Museu da Electricidade (Lisbon), as well as Centro de Arte José de Guimarães (Portugal).

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13.11.2015

0:00.00, Edgar Martins' forthcoming book is to be launched on Friday 13th November at Paris Photo. 

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To place an advanced order please contact The Moth House.

15.09.2015

Due in November 2015, this new book published by The Moth House documents an 18-month long collaboration which I undertook with the BMW Group surveying the fabrication, tooling and assembly of the modern era automobile vehicle. Whilst the project focuses solely on BMW's plant and R&D centers in and around Munich (Germany), it also looks beyond the mere referent, representing therefore a point of resistance.

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Conceived around the simple premise of 'slowing down time',  this project undertakes an examination and articulation of the world of flux and flow that we live in, a world defined, haunted and consumed by mobility and transience. Symptomatically titled 0:00.00, this series was produced with long exposures of 5 - 45mins. Photographing with prolonged exposures in a fast moving environment represented a significant challenge, thus requiring a great deal of coordination and support from BMW. All the images were therefore produced during scheduled and enforced production breaks. 0:00.00 represents the final phase of an overarching project which has engaged with environments as varied as airports (When Light Casts no Shadow 2008), hydropwer plants (The Time Machine, 2012) and space facilities (The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite, 2014) and whose main goal has been to examine and re-evaluate our relationship with technology and industry and its impact on our social and cultural consciousness. To place an advanced order, please contact The Moth House.

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21/05/2015

Please join us on Thursday 21st May from 3-4pm at Photo London (The Wapping project Bankside booth) where I will be signing copies of my book The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite.

13.03.2015

Private-view of The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite @ The Wolverhampton Art Gallery (UK) and talk hosted by Edgar Martins and ESA astronaut Jean-François Clervoy. Exhibition will be on display from 07.02.2015 - 02.05.2015.

30.01.2015

My collection / TERRADA, featuring images from The Time Machine @ T-Art Gallery, Tokyo, curated by Daisuke Miyatsu.

Septembe 2014

The Diminishing present is featured in Art and Ecology Now, a Thames & Hudson publication, edited by Andrew Brown.

13.11.2014

Private-view of a concise exhibition of works from the series The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite @ Melanie Rio Gallery Paris, 19:00.

08.10.2014

Private-view of The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite @ Sala da Cidade (Museu Municipal de Coimbra), from 18:30 - 19:30.

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For the first time in the worldwide tour of this work, Edgar Martins' exhibition will include a mixed media layout, with photographs and other artworks  displayed alongside original ESA technological hardware as well as personal, space-flown possessions of ESA astronauts.

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05.07.2014

Children attending the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation's Summer workshops respond to Edgar Martins' exhibition 'The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite', by producing their own artworks/sculptures.

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True outsider-insider art that even the great Rauschenberg would have been proud of.

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27.06.2014

Edgar Martins and exhibition curator Leonor Nazaré give a guided tour of The Rehearsal of Space & The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite @ Fundação Calouste Gulbennkian, Lisbon, 17H00.

03.07.2014

The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite is featured on SICnotícias.

12.06.2014

Private-view of The Rehearsal of Space & The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite @ Galerie Melanie Rio (Nantes, France).

22.05.2014

Images from the series This is not a House and Reluctant Monoliths are presented at Art'Otel as part of the Grid Festival Amsterdam.

24.04.2014

The Rehearsal of Space is featured in the Mailonline.

16.04.2014

Vega Mobile Gantry picture, from the series The Rehearsal of Space is selected by The European Space Agency as their Tech Pic of the Week .  

12.04.2014

Hot off the press: The Rehearsal of Space & The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite, a new book by Edgar Martins, is published by La Fabrica/The Moth House.

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Produced between 2012 and 2014 with the European Space Agency, this project represents the most comprehensive survey ever assembled about a modern day scientific and space exploration organisation.The projects engages with ESA and its partners’ programs , whilst also reflecting on the new politics of space exploration as well as the impact of this kind of technological application on our social consciousness. If you would like to acquire this book, please click here. Orders will be shipped at the end of April.

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26.04.2014

Talk entitled The Rehearsal of Space scheduled to take place at The University of Northampton, from 1100-1300.

21.03.2014

To view The Moth House's March newsletter with news and information on the release of my latest book The Rehearsal of Space and The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite, please click here.

10.03.2014

Entre Imagens documentary airs today on RTP 2 (Portugal). Episode 2 is dedicated to Edgar Martins. 

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The 25m documentary will showcase and analyse some of Martins' most prominent work, including the series This is not a House, The Time Machine and The Rehearsal of Space and The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite, a more recent body of work that resulted from a two-year collaboration with the European Space Agency. The artist is also filmed during the production of new work, thus providing an insight into his methodology. Entre Images is a project by Pedro Macedo & Sérgio Mah and it consists of a documentary series about 13 renowned Portuguese visual artists who work with Photography.

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07.03.2014

Edgar Martins is interviewed by Patrícia Alves, Ponto Final (Macau, China).

11.02.2014

The Rehearsal of Space is featured in featured in Wired.com .

07.02.2014

The Rehearsal of Space is featured in fastcodesign.com @ fastcompany.com .

04.02.2014

The Rehearsal of Space is featured in repubblica.it .

02.01.2014

The Rehearsal of Space is featured in Behold, The Photo Blog of online magazine Slate.

17.01.2014

The Time Machine is featured in Photobookshow Malmö, Sweden.

12.12.2013

The Rehearsal of Space & The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite featured in The Guardian.

05.12.2013

Reluctant Monoliths previewed @ Art Basel Miami (5-8th Dec, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art Booth_J08)

26.11.2013

The Wapping Project Bankside has partnered with Mallett, the renowned antique furniture dealers, to present a unique and original hang of contemporary photographic work. It's an exceptional synergy of classic and contemporary.

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The showrooms are set over four floors of a classical townhouse, which was built as the London palace for the Bishop of Ely in 1772 and remained the Episcopal residence until 1909. The Bishop employed Robert Taylor to draw up the designs for the building, a renowned neo-classical architect famed for the figure of ‘the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street, amongst other designs. Ely House, with its historical importance and exceptional interiors, is the ideal setting for this unique collaboration.

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14.11.2013

The Rehearsal of Space & The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite is previewed @ Paris Photo (14-17th Nov, Melanie Rio Gallery booth).

18.10.2013

The Rehearsal of Space & The Poetic Futility to Manage the Infinite is featured in the Financial Times Magazine. Click here to view the online feature.

28.09.2013

Talk and guided tour of exhibition @ Photofusion, London, from 3-4pm.

27.09.2013

The Time Machine is included in Shinonome Photo Festival 2013 at TOLOT / heuristic SHINONOME, Tokyo.

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The Shinonome Photo Festival comprises a group exhibition of photographs by 10 contemporary art galleries with 2 galleries permanently located at the venue. This exhibition will run until the 9th November.

26.09.2013

The Rehearsal of Space & The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite previewed @ Unseen Art Fair Amsterdam (26-29th Sept, The Wapping Project Bankside booth), as well as Paris Photo (14th-17th Nov, Melanie Rio Gallery booth).

05.09.2013

The Rehearsal of Space & The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite previewed @ ArtRio (5-8th Sept, Laura Marsiaj Arte Contemporânea booth K2).

05.09.2013

Private-view of The Time Machine @ Photofusion, London.

22.08.2013

The Rehearsal of Space & The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite previewed @ SP-arte/Foto (22-25th Aug, Laura Marsiaj Arte Contemporânea booth).

03.07.2013

Talk @ Carmignac entitled The Rehearsal of Space & The Poetic Impossibility to Manage the Infinite, 12:15 PM.

23.06.2013

Edgar Martins announces his historic collaboration with the European Space Agency.

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Edgar Martins announces his historic collaboration with the European Space Agency. For more details on this project, on the draw to win a large scale artwork from the series or to order an advance copy of the book, please click here.

13/07/2013

Private-view of Why not live for Art scheduled to take place at Tokyo Opera City Gallery, Japan.

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Private-view of Why not live for Art scheduled to take place at Tokyo Opera City Gallery, Japan. This exhibition will feature a selection of works from Asian private collections, including images from the series A Metaphysical Survey of British Dwellings.

11.06.2013

Edgar Martins @ Art Basel, with Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art (Lisbon). Stand N14

10.06.2013

Talk at Futurelab entitled The Rehearsal of Space & The Poetic Impossibility of Manage the Inifinite.

10/06/2013

Private-view of Sincronias (Colecção António Cachola) scheduled to take place at MEIAC, Museu Extremenho e Iberoamericano de Badajoz (Spain).

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Private-view of Sincronias (Colecção António Cachola) scheduled to take place at MEIAC, Museu Extremenho e Iberoamericano de Badajoz (Spain). This exhibition will feature works from the series When Light Casts no Shadow.

25.05.2012

Talk at Publishing Week Symposium, Diffusion Festival, Chapter House, Cardiff, 11:45am.

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Talk at Publishing Week Symposium, Diffusion Festival, Chapter House, Cardiff, 11:45am. Event chair: Christiane Monarchi

05.09.2013

Private-view of The Time Machine scheduled to take place at Ffotogallery, Penarth (Wales). For a video about the show, please click here.

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Private-view of The Time Machine scheduled to take place at Ffotogallery, Penarth (Wales). For a video about the show, please click here. This touring exhibition is sponsored by Fundação EDP, The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (UK Branch) & Instituto Camões.

13.03.2013

Private-view of Landmark: the Fields of Photography (group show) @ Sommerset House, London.

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Private-view of Landmark: the Fields of Photography (group show) @ Sommerset House, London. This exhibition will feature images from the series The Accidental Theorist & When Light Casts no Shadow.

14.02.2013

Artist talk @ The Gallery of Photography, Dublin.13:00-14:00.

13.02.2013

Private-view of This is not a House @ The Gallery of Photography, Dublin.

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Private-view of This is not a House @ The Gallery of Photography, Dublin. This touring exhibition is sponsored by The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (UK Branch) & Instituto Camões.

10.01.2013

Private-view of The Time Machine: An Incomplete & Semi-Objective Survey of Hydropower Stations @ Galeria Fundação EDP, Porto (Portugal).

05.12.2013

Edgar Martins @ Miami Basel, with Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art (Lisbon).

15.09.2013

Edgar Martins @ Paris Photo, with Melanie Rio (Nantes, France). Work selected for 'As seen by David Lynch', a curated Paris Photo publication about the best works on show.

21.09.2012

Private-view of Intersections: Art & Science (group show) @ The Weizmann Institute, Rehovot (Israel).

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Private-view of Intersections: Art & Science (group show) @ The Weizmann Institute, Rehovot (Israel). Thos exhibition will feature works from the series The Time Machine.

20.09.2012

Private view of Fotografia - Festival Internazionale di Roma @ MACRO (Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome). This exhibition will run until 4th November 2012.

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Private view of Fotografia - Festival Internazionale di Roma @ MACRO (Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome). Festival will run until 4th November 2012. This exhibition will feature images from the series This is not a House, which is supported by The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (UK Branch) & Instituto Camões.

01.09.2012

Private view of Square Up, Esposizione di fotografia contemporanea (group show) @ Atelier dell'Arco Amoroso, Ancona, Piazza del Plebiscito, Acona (Italy).

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Private view of Square Up, Esposizione di fotografia contemporanea (group show) @ Atelier dell'Arco Amoroso, Ancona, Piazza del Plebiscito, Acona (Italy). Exhibition curated by: Daniele De Luigi and promoted by Associazione white.fish.tank. This exhibition will run until the 30th November 2012.

18.07.2012

Private-view of A man is walking down the street. At a certain moment, he tries to recall something, but the recollection escapes him. Automatically, he slows down (group show) @ Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon.

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Private-view of A man is walking down the street. At a certain moment, he tries to recall something, but the recollection escapes him. Automatically, he slows down (group show) @ Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon. Exhibition curated by Ana Luiza Teixeira de Freitas & Thom O'Nions. Also featuring: Matt Mulican, Lisa Oppenheim, Dieter Roth, Lawrence Weiner, etc.

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30.07.2012

Filming for documentary titled Entre Imagens, scheduled to be launched in 2014. For a trailer of the documentary, please click here.

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Filming for documentary titled Entre Imagens, scheduled to be launched in 2014. For a trailer of the documentary, please click here. Entre Images is a project by Pedro Macedo & Sérgio Mah and it consists of a documentary series about 13 renowned Portuguese visual artists who work with Photography. Episode 2 is dedicated to my practice.

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12.07.2012

Private view of 'Paisagem Humana #15 (group show) @ BES Arte & Finança, Lisbon.

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TPrivate view of 'Paisagem Humana #15 (group show) @ BES Arte & Finança, Lisbon. This exhibition will feature works from the series When Light Casts no Shadow.

30.06.2012

Private view of The Time Machine: An Incomplete & Semi-Objective Survey of Hydropower Stations @ Centro de Arte Contemporânea Graça Morais, Bragança (Portugal).

14.06.2012

Edgar Martins @ Art Basel, with Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art (Lisbon).

12.06.2012

Interview featured in Câmara Clara (RTP). For more information please click here.

08.06.2012

The Wayward Line exhibition reviewed in Ipsílion (O Público), by Nuno Crespo. To read the article please click here.

06.06.2012

Private view of 'Camp Out: Finding Home in an Unstable World' (group show) @ Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, USA.

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Private view of 'Camp Out: Finding Home in an Unstable World' (group show) @ Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, USA. This exhibition will run until the 30th Sepetmber 2012 and will feature works from the series This is not a House.

01.06.2012

Work featured in the inaugural international edition of Direct Arts Magazine (Portugal).

01.06.2012

This is not a House reviewed in Aesthetica Magazine, by Ruby Beesley. To read the article please click here.

24.05.2013

Private-view of The Wayward Line @ Gristina Guerra Contemporary Art (Lisbon).

09.05.2012

Private-view of This is not a House @ The Wapping Project Bankside (London).

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Private-view of This is not a House @ The Wapping Project Bankside (London). This exhibition is sponsored by The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (UK Branch) & Instituto Camões.

22.03.2012

Private-view of This is not a House @ Galeria MouraMarsiaj (S. Paulo).

09.02.2012

Private-view of Arte Portuguesa do Século XX 1960 - 2010 (group show) @ Museu do Chiado, Lisbon.

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Private-view of Arte Portuguesa do Século XX 1960 - 2010 (group show) @ Museu do Chiado, Lisbon. This exhibition will run until 17th June 2012 and will feature images from the series The Accidental Theorist.

25.01.2012

Private view of The Near and the Elsewhere (group show) @ PM Gallery & House (London).

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Private view of The Near and the Elsewhere (group show) @ PM Gallery & House (London). Also featuring James Casebere, Tacita Dean, Thomas Demand, Peter Piller and Rachel Whiteread.

19.01.2012

The Time Machine book launch @ The Wapping project Bankside, from 19H00-21H00.

17.01.2012

Private view of This is not a House @ The Wapping Project (London), from 19H00-21H00.

15.01.2012

Work featured in Sotheby's Guide to Collecting Photography, published by Thames & Hudson & edited by Jocelyn Phillips.

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Work featured in Sotheby's Guide to Collecting Photography, published by Thames & Hudson & edited by Jocelyn Phillips. To purchase title, click here.

15.12.2011

Launch of catalogue of seminar entitled On the Surface: Public Space and Architectural Images in Debate' published by FAUP/EUAM & edited by Pedro Leão and Pedro Bandeira.

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Launch of catalogue of seminar entitled On the Surface: Public Space and Architectural Images in Debate' published by FAUP/EUAM & edited by Pedro Leão and Pedro Bandeira. This title features images from the series This is not a House.

07.12.2010

Private-view of Abrstraction (group show) @ Château d'Eau, Toulouse (France).

19.11.2011

Private view of The Time Machine @ Yamamoto Gendai (Tokyo).

16.11.2010

Aperture Presents @ Boutique Montblanc. As part of Mois de la Photo, Aperture Presents exhibition will feature a stellar lineup of diverse photographers whose abstract approaches thrive within contemporary practice.

10.11.2011

Edgar Martins is interviewed by Caroline Hancock, curator and critic. Talk integrated in Paris Photo's 2011 series of talks, round tables & performances. Event scheduled for 4PM @ Paris Photo, Grand Palais, Rotonde de la Reine, Paris.

09.11.2011

Edgar Martins in conversation with Peter D. Osborne, author and senior lecturer in Cultural Studies and History and Theory of Photography in the Faculty of Media at London College of Communication. Event scheduled for: 2PM @ The University of the Arts, Elephant & Castle, London.

05.11.2011

In Conversation with Edgar Martins. Event scheduled for: 12:30PM @ The New Art Gallery Walsall, Gallery Square, Walsall WS2 8LG, UK.

04.11.2011

Exhibition tour and talk with Edgar Martins. Event scheduled for: 12:30 & 2PM @ The New Art Gallery Walsall, Gallery Square, Walsall WS2 8LG, UK.

02.11.2011

Edgar Martins in conversation with Francis Hodgson, photography critic for the Financial Time. Event scheduled for: 7PM @ The Wapping Project Bankside, 65a Hopton Street, London SE1.

22.10.2011

Edgar Martins in conversation with David Campany, author and curator. Event scheduled for: 2PM @ The Wapping Project Bankside, 65a Hopton Street, London SE1.

20.10.2011

The Time Machine featured in Hot Shoe Magazine and The British Journal of Photography.

13.10.2011

Private view of The Time Machine: An Incomplete & Semi-Objective Survey of Hydro Power Plants @ Museu da Electricidade (Lisbon).

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To view a video about the exhibition please <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtqHB00gsRc">click here</a>.

11.10.2011

Private view of Infinite Balance: Artists and the Environment (group show) @ MOPA San Diego, California, USA.

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Private view of Infinite Balance: Artists and the Environment (group show) @ MOPA San Diego, California, USA. Infinite Balance is the first US presentation of artists shortlisted for the Prix Pictet, the world’s top prize for photography and sustainability and which I was nominated for last year.

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10.10.2011

Private view of Da Cartografia do Poder aos Itinerários do Saber (group show) @ Museu da Ciência da Universidade de Coimbra - a FCTUC & Museu Nacional - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro co-production.

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Private view of Da Cartografia do Poder aos Itinerários do Saber (group show) @ Museu da Ciência da Universidade de Coimbra - a FCTUC & Museu Nacional - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro co-production. This exhibition will also be presented at Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro.

30.09.2011

Private view of This is not a House @ The New Art Gallery Walsall (UK).

22.09.2011

Private-view of The Time Machine @ Wapping project Bankside.

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Private-view of The Time Machine @ Wapping project Bankside. A monograph by the same title will be launched at the gallery in January 2012.

17.09.2011

Work featured in the 9th International Photo Festival in TR1 Kunsthalle, Tampere.

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Work featured in the 9th International Photo Festival in TR1 Kunsthalle, Tampere. The theme of the Backlight 2011 Photo Festival is Migration and Nomadic Living in the 21st Century.

13.09.2011

Private view of A Culpa não é minha (works from the António Cachola collection), curated by Eric Corne @ Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon.

10.09.2011

The Time Machine featured in The Guardian and Blueprint Magazine.

10.08.2011

You can now follow me on Twitter.

23.07.2011

Runner-up at Voies Off Prize. Work reviewed at www.lacritique.org .

01.07.2011

Edgar Martins is now represented in the UK by The Wapping Project Bankside .

19.06.2011

Edgar Martins is now represented in the UK by The Wapping Project Bankside.

06.06.2011

Work featured in Art Presse (France), Connaissance Des Artes (France), L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui (France) & BJP (UK).

03.06.2011

Private view of Dwarf Exoplanets & Other Sophisms @ the Macau Pavilion (The 54th Venice Biennale).

20.05.2011

Private view of The Burrow (group show) @ SIAKOS HANAPPE House of Art, Athens (Greece).

15.05.2011

Wok published in QUART Magazine (Austria).

13.05.2011

Private view of The Metaphysical Survey of British Dwellings @ Galerie Melanie Rio, Nantes (France).

15.04.2011

Work published in AG & Hot Shoe Magazines (UK).

11.03.2011

Talk entitled This is not a House @ Lincoln University.

03.03.2011

Private view of Something That I'll Never Really See, Contemporary Photography from the V&A (Group show)@ The BHAU Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai (India).

01.02.2011

Launch of new monograph entitled This is not a House, published by Dewi Lewis.

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Launch of new monograph entitled This is not a House, published by Dewi Lewis. A related limited-edition title with a print run of 150 copies will be launched at the same time. This book will include an 8x10" C-type print.

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20.01.2011

Winner of Professional Photographer Awards 2010 (Interiors/Architecture category).

20.01.2011

Talk entitled This is not a House @ Westminster University, London.

17.12.2009

Launch of When Light Casts no Shadow, Edgar Martins' latest monograph @ The Photographers' Gallery, London.

20.11.2010

Book signing of The Wayward Line @ Melanie Rio Gallery Stand, Paris Photo, from 12:00-14:00. Galerie Melanie Rio will be displaying a selection of my recent works.

19.11.2010

Paris Photo Close-up VIP: guided tour of solo show at Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian (Paris) for Paris Photo guests, followed by a cocktail service.

29.10.2010

Article published in Ipsílon (the cultural supplement of O Público newspaper, Portugal) concerning retrospective exhibition @ Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris.

19.10.2010

Private-view of solo show @ Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris (curated by Sérgio Mah). Launch of monograph relating to work on show.

15.10.2010

Private view of Interiores (group show) @ Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art. Exhibition curated by Pedro Gadanho. A book by the same title will be launched at this time.

05.10.2010

Work featured in Blueprint magazine.

09.12.2010

Private-view of About a Minute (group show) @ The Gopher Hole (London).

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Private-view of About a Minute (group show) @ The Gopher Hole (London). About a Minute is the inaugural exhibition at The Gopher Hole, a new project space in Hoxton founded by aberrant architect Beatrice Galilee.

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09.09.2010

Awarded 1st Place at International Photography Awards, Fine Art Abstract Category and selected for the 2010 International Photography Awards Best of Show exhibition.

15.08.2010

Work featured in Blueprint, Creative Review, Scórpio Magazine & Livraison Magazines.

04.07.2010

Work featured in publications and periodicals such as T-Magazine (Portugal), SOL (Portugal), Expresso (Portugal), Dardo (Portugal/Spain), Livraison (Sweden), World Art China (China), Horizon Magazine (Macau/Hong Kong), amongst others.

01.07.2010

Private view of A Metaphysical Survey of British Dwellings & Dwarf Exoplanets @ Hot Shoe Gallery.

16.06.2010

Private view of This is not a House @ The Photographer's Gallery (PSG), London.

11.06.2010

Launch of my facebook group page. Please follow me here.

12.05.2010

Participation in Madrid Foto Fair with La Caja Negra.

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Participation in Madrid Foto Fair with La Caja Negra. Other represented artists: Tacita Dean, José Ma Diaz-Moroto, Documéntation Céline Duval, Cao Gumarães, Carlos Garaicoa.

05.05.2010

Selected for AP+AI 2010 Photography Annual, USA.

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28.04.2010

Participation in seminar: UFG (UFAT Photograph Festival), Turkey.

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13.04.2010

Private view of Da Outra Margem do Atlântico: alguns exemplos de videoarte e fotografia portuguesa (group show) @ Centro de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro.

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05.03.2010

Private view of Des lendemains qui chantent @ Galerie Melanie Rio, Nantes.

01.02.2010

Residency in Beijing, in conjunction with Red Gate Gallery.

03.12.2009

Private view of When Light Casts no Shadow @ Caprice Horn Gallery, Berlin.

19.11.2009

Official launch of When Light Casts no Shadow @ Paris Photo.

29.10.2009

Private view of The Rate of Convergence of Two Opposing System Trajectories @ Galeria Graça Brandão, Lisbon. My latest monograph When Light Casts no Shadow will also be launched on this evening.

23.10.2009

Private view of When Light Casts no Shadow and launch of book by the same name, at Porta33, Madeira.

05.07.2009

Finalist of the Prix Pictet Photography Award. Results will be announced on October 22nd 2009.

22.06.2009

Residency at the Everglades National Park, Florida (USA).

11.12.2009

Launch of When Light Casts no Shadow, Edgar Martins' latest monograph @ Galerie Melanie Rio, Nantes.

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