Though he originally studied law and worked as a Real Estate Agent, Martin has been interested in photography since childhood. In 1989 he took a basic photography course and a black and white darkroom course in college and soon set up a darkroom at his house and began experimenting with traditional black and white printing and with alternative, and somewhat archaic, printing methods and materials: cyanotypes, salt prints, gum bichromate prints, all on hand-coated watercolour papers etc. He experienced a renewed enthusiasm and appreciation for photography after taking promotional pictures of properties for a...more
