Fotograf Magazine

The origins of Edgar Martins (born 1977) are an important key that significantly shapes the character of his work. His refined sense for perfect composition, order, rhythm and detail, combined with his technical processing of images, stem from his life experience and reflect the pulsating multicultural nature and thousands of years of tradition that are found in the southern Chinese province and former Portuguese colony of Macao, where he lived from early childhood and spent his adolescence. The genius loci of this location contributed towards the artist’s unique talent to creatively evoke an intense experience from a particular process, state, event or time period as well as to his ability to transpose ‘beauty’ even through subject matter that is basically unattractive.