PAT MARTIN

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FINN WOLFHARD for the cover of SHARP MAGAZINE

Based in Los Angeles, California, Pat Martin is an American photographer who grew up in a broken family in Mar Vista near Venice Beach.

CHLOE GRACE MORETZ for the cover of WONDERLAND

ASANTE BLACKK for ODDA

KARYN KUSAMA for DOCUMENT

OURA

ACHENRIN

Pat, early on, was obsessed with the stark portrait. He started assisting portrait photographers until he began diving into his own personal work.

TOBY

A SNACK IN GOLDEN HOUR LIGHT

JEFFRIES, IN BED

FREDDIE GIBBS for DOCUMENT

“I realized my family album ends at my 3rd birthday and every page after is blank.” He saw the present as an opportunity to build upon an empty family album, while finding new connections through portraiture.

ADAM SCOTT for SHARP

OTHER STORIES PS22

BASS

COLLEEN HEIDEMANN for BLANC MAGAZINE

In 2019 he won the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize for portraits of his late mother. His portraits have been exhibited at The National Portrait Gallery in London.

MOM & BEAUX

MOM'S 60th

MOM, FRESH OFF THE BOAT

MOM

“It was a big thing for me to photograph my mom and to freeze the time with her but now I feel like I’m trying to take that same energy force and go a little bit more inward with it.”

AT LARGE X GUCCI

BRUCE AND LINDA'S HANDS

AT LARGE X GUCCI

DOCUMENTARY

The past years have been devoted to his family work, understanding the importance of time, and building a new narrative.

ANGUS CLOUD for THE NEW YORK TIMES

NEPHEWS WATCHING TV

BRIAN CALVIN for DIOR

ALAN KIM for INTERVIEW

BRUCE for ESQUIRE

Pat collaborates with publications including Time, Document Journal, New Yorker, The observer, Interview, Man About Town, The face, Mastermind, Crack Magazine, At Large and Blanc Magazine.

CHLOE GRACE MORETZ for the cover of WONDERLAND

SSENSE

DOCUMENTARY

BIOLOGICAL FATHER

“I personally wanna feel more full in my life, and photography and making photographs in a wide way continues to be an instrument for that fullness.”

RICKY MARTIN for DOCUMENT

DOCUMENTARY

ONCE IN A GOLDEN HOUR

YEAH YEAH YEAHS for CRACK

 

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