The Aperture Foundation and Edgar Martins are pleased to invite you to the launch of "Topologies", wich will be held at Fnac Chiado - 30th May 2008, from 6.30 to 7.30 pm.

Topologies, 128 pages, Hardback. Essays by John Beardsley & David Campany.

With artful composition and controlled framing—but no digital manipulation—Edgar
Martins creates sublimely beautiful views of often un-beautiful sites. Minimalist
nighttime beaches, forests ravaged by fires, and Iceland’s stark terrain have all served
as subjects for his large-scale color photographs. He also explores the unexpected
impact of modernism on the landscape, including startlingly graphic airport runways
and colorful highway barriers that, at first glance, read like abstract murals.
Certain themes recur throughout Martins’ work. A sense of place and alienation from
it. A sense of mystery—vividly embodied in scenes such as a woman with a bouquet of
balloons on a deserted shore. And a sense that something unsettling has just
happened or is about to happen—a fire, an accident, a close encounter with some
unspecified danger. As John Beardsley notes, “Some images are what we habitually
expect photography to be—evidence of the world as we think we know it—while others obscure their subjects through an illusionism that borders on magic.”

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