Through artful composition and controlled framing Martins’ work features sublimely beautiful views of often un-beautiful sites, with no digital manipulations. John Beardsley writes, “Some images are what we habitually expect photography to be—evidence of the world as we think we know it—while others obscure their subjects through an illusionism that borders on magic.”
Aperture Foundation received funding in support of publication of photographs by Edgar Martins entitled Topographies.