Edgar Martins – This is not a House

I went and had another look at the Edgar Martins “This is not a House” exhibition at the Wapping project yesterday. I thought I should share some of the photographs from the book seeing as it hasn’t had a mention on here yet.

Martins was commissioned, by The New York Times Magazine, to shoot a series that depicts the demise of America’s housing industry, brought about largely by the downturn of the global economy. I assume they selected Edgar Martins because they wanted something slightly different to the usual journalist or documentary style photographer. The project was actually pulled from their website after it had come to light that he had tampered with some of the images. It seems a bit strange really, a lot of his previous work has quite clearly been manipulated, and so I can’t help but wonder why they weren’t expecting it.

Anyway, I still think the work is fantastic, and the exhibition itself is possibly the best displayed exhibition I have seen. Well worth a look. The photograph below was taken on my phone so it’s not brilliant but you get the idea.