Artist's Biography
Upon retiring from his career as a cinematographer, during which he helped create an Academy Award-nominated documentary on still photography, Ed Martin set up a darkroom and studio in his Los Angeles home and began experimenting with the technique of Cibachrome printing. Often related to the themes of life and death, his images are produced slowly, painstakingly, and with love. Martin substitutes a photographic enlarger for a camera, placing objects on glass in the enlarger and then projecting the image onto film. He is particularly fascinated by the effect that lamp oil has on plants and flowers, viewing the process as a mysterious metamorphosis. Thinking of his work as an exploration, Martin finds every day as much a discovery of process as it is of composition.

Ed Martin