Martin Douglas Hendry is a UK-based photographer, and mixed media artist interested in creating images that reveal atmosphere hidden in everyday surroundings.
This includes street photography which purposefully hides the subject from view using various techniques; as well various other projects that focus on presenting mundane, interstitial, or overlooked image subjects in a way that elevates them to significance.
Martin was awarded a PhD from the School of Design at the University of Leeds in 2017, where he conducted research into the impact of smartphones and social media on practices of personal photography. You can access Martin’s thesis here.
Martin’s main reference points are: Paul Graham, modernist American photographers of the 1950s, Andreas Gursky, as well as cinematographers such as Andrei Tarkovsky, and David Lynch, amongst others.
Each of these influences inform Martin’s practice in pushing the boundaries of representation – both through transgression of photography as a medium traditionally associated with documenting reality, as well as representing internal psychological states through the choice representation of external subjects, alongside other treatments of reality and visual representation.
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