Edgar Martins, born in 1977 in Évora, Portugal, grew up in Macau, China. In 1996, he moved to London, where he studied at the University of the Arts and the Royal College of Art. Landscape, place, space, and architecture, as well as political, social, and human issues, have emerged as the predominant themes of his photographic work.
Edgar Martins’s works are included in numerous collections, notably those of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon, the MAAT/Fundação EDP in Lisbon, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Royal Institute of British Architects in the United Kingdom, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Fondazione MAST in Bologna, and the Fondation Carmignac in Paris.
His first book won the Thames & Hudson Prize and the RCA Society Book Art Prize. Between 2002 and 2020, Martins published twelve separate books.
He won the first edition of the New York Photography Award (Fine Art category) in May 2008. Between 2009 and 2010, he also received the BES Photo Prize (Portugal), a Sony World Photography Award, and first prize in the “Fine Art/Abstract” category at the 2010 International Photography Awards. In 2017–2018, he was recognized at the Magnum and Sony World Photography Awards. Edgar Martins represented Macau (China) at the 54th Venice Biennale. In 2023, he received the Sony World Photographer of the Year award for his series “Our War.”
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Date : 2025
Dimensions : 208x260mm
Pages : 328
Edition : 400 (in two covers)
Softback
English
Essays : David Campany & Will Self
ISBN : 978-0-9569085-5-1
Portfolio of 12 pigment prints on Baryta Prestige paper, 33 x 48 cm, drawer case, 2018. Limited edition of 12 portfolios signed by the artist and two artist proofs.
Date : 2020
Dimensions : Twin publication in 170x230mm & 151x221mm
Pages : 220 & 312
Edition : 400
Softback & Harback
English
Essay by Mark Durden
ISBN : 978-0-9569085-4-4
Date : January 2017
Dimensions : 270mmx340mm
Pages : 108 (54 colour plates)
Hardback, clothbound spine
English
Foreword by Peter D. Osborne
ISBN : 978-0-9569085-2-0
Portfolio of 12 pigment prints on Baryta Prestige paper, 33 x 48 cm, drawer case, 2018. Limited edition of 12 portfolios signed by the artist and two artist proofs.
Date : May 2014
Dimensions : 240mmx320mm
Pages : 184 (86 color plates)
Hardback, with dust-jacket
English and Spanish
Essays by John Gribbin, João Seixas, Sérgio Mah
ISBN : 978-84-15691-68-6
Date : October 2010
Dimensions : 235mmx240mm
Pages : 180
Edition : 300
Clothbound hardcover with tipped-in image
English & French
Essays by Edgar Martins, Jacinto Lageira, Peter D. Osborne, Sérgio Mah
ISBN : 978-972-8462-55-0
Portfolio of 12 pigment prints on Baryta Prestige paper, 33 x 48 cm, drawer case, 2018. Limited edition of 12 portfolios signed by the artist and two artist proofs.
Date : December 2009
Dimensions : 270mmx335mm
Pages : 84
Edition : 1000
Clothbound hardcover with tipped-in image
(Available in two different covers)
English
Interview by Gerry Badger
ISBN : 978-1-904587-81-1
Date : May 2008
Dimensions : 240mm x 280 mm
Pages : 119
Edition : 4000
Hardcover with in screen printed dust jacket
English
Essay by John Beardsley, interview by David Campany
ISBN : 978-1-59711-057-0
Date : July 2006
Dimensions : 330mmx280mm
Pages : 160
Edition : 500 (signed and numbered)
Blind debossing on front & back covers with tipped-in image, housed in a screen printed acrylic slipcase
English & Portuguese
Essays by David Campany, David Chandler, Nuno Porto & Rita Amaral, Peter D. Osborne
ISBN : 978-0-9543957-7-3
Portfolio of 12 pigment prints on Baryta Prestige paper, 33 x 48 cm, drawer case, 2018. Limited edition of 12 portfolios signed by the artist and two artist proofs.
