Edgar Martins. Untitled, 2008.
Nominated for The Diminishing Present, 2005 & 2008.
ADP magazine 1(5): This is the new shit! | Published 01 November 2009
Intro | Darren Almond | Christopher Anderson | Sammy Baloji | Edward Burtynsky
Andreas Gursky | Naoya Hatakeyama | Nadav Kander | Ed Kashi | Abbas Kowsari | Yao Lu
Edgar Martins | Chris Steele-Perkins
Andreas Gursky | Naoya Hatakeyama | Nadav Kander | Ed Kashi | Abbas Kowsari | Yao Lu
Edgar Martins | Chris Steele-Perkins
> Series: The Diminishing Present. C-Type print, 98 x 127 cm, Portugal. Courtesy Edgar Martins and Prix Pictet.
From press pack: In this series of photographs, Edgar Martins captures the progress of advancing forest fires in Portugal. The beautiful, painterly images show the vivid greens of vegetation about to be consumed by flames and the charred land left in their wake. The fires of 2005 and 2008 followed an extended period of drought and extreme heat that many believed to be a result of global climate change. They were also considered evidence of environmental mismanagement; much of the
forest was eucalyptus, a fast-growing but extremely flammable tree that is frequently planted in reforestation projects.
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